Re: Money Program Does Linux

["Richard" <nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk>]

Chris

	Thought you'd wake up eventually :-)

> Principally because it doesn't take 5 mins to produce s/w - Windows or
> otherwise. I've been working on a single piece of s/w for the last 2
> years and it isn't remotely ready for release and yes, it is HE s/w.
>

:-)
 
> It would be a very good piece of software that could inspire ideas,
> and a very exceptional student. There's nothing like hands on
> experience to inspire and most (all?) educational s/w I have seen is
> insipid at best (mine may or may not be excluded from this category
> :)). Just a bald presentation of imprecise facts with a dancing rabbit
> to appeal to the under 5s. Just thinking about some of it and the
> Education minister saying more children should use IT makes me very
> afraid of bringing children up in a country with such a
> technologically naive government.
> 

Yes, I have thought that way a few times :-)  In the end it was just 
the thought that the Government security services haven't got a clue 
that stopped me from getting married :-)   (being ex-RAF)

> I still use dead tree. There are very few educational packages 
> dealing with shear induced changes in erythrocytes :) Most times I
> write the dead tree myself.


So, that's where all that stuff in the library came from ?  :-)


Richard
Sheffield UK

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