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gdevenyi
Who remembers turning and object oriented turing from the university of Waterloo?
quietraster
two years of polishing a teaching ide is dedication. what made you build your own instead of leaning on somethi
tonyg
Wellll not two years, no, a couple-few weeks of initial work and then, embarrassingly, it sat idle for two years. As to why: at least in part because one of the best ways to learn is to do.
mccoyb
If only our interactions with "non-teaching" languages were anything like this ... or humane, in the lineage of Bret Victor, etc.

Also shout out @tonyg for Syndicate! I keep coming back to it -- a beautiful piece of PL work.

gremlinunderway
I will never understand the point of teaching languages that aren't actually used. To me it just seems like its intended to be easier for the teacher rather than being beneficial for the student.

Python is already a super simple language and has enough functional plus OOP orientation that it can be used to showcase every concept and still be useful for the student.

Completely pointless...