The Fool wrote:
I'm not the one going around claiming how much better it was in day...
Aw, c'mon. David was looking for this for a very specific teaching purpose. It brought back a great memory of the first time I managed to print a sine wave with asterisks on a (30 baud>) Teletype. Suddenly, I grasped the relationship between the code and what it spits out -- and that it could be more than just letters and numbers. Perhaps David and I have resonant outdated ideas about how to learn to use computers because we were both early adopters, whereas you came long much later and thus may be absolutely right. However, there's being right and there's being smart...
Your insistence that he could choose something better is taking his request far beyond his goal -- which makes it seem to me as though you're really saying that he's using the wrong approach to teaching his children. That just doesn't seem like a good idea, given that he didn't ask our advice on that subject.
In my experience, it's a bad idea to give people advice unless they ask for it. Giving unsolicited advice about how to behave toward their children is out at the asymptote of the ranking of badness of such ideas... even (or maybe especially) when the person in question is my own "kid."
Nick
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