It's interesting that you bring up the slaughterhouse analogy -- I've used it on many occasions to make the opposite point: I know that cows are butchered to make steaks. I've seen videos of it, in fact. I shouldn't have to learn how to do it to order at McDonalds.
There's a world of difference between "Kids today" and "computer programmer." Forcing the 99.9% of kids who *won't* become computer programmers to use a command line because of the .1% who will is like forcing every kid to butcher a hog before they are allowed to eat bacon. On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Kids today don't need to know >> what a command line is because the vast majority of them will never see >> one >> in their lives. >> > > Really? I wonder about that. Surely every potential computer programmer > should > have some sort of understanding of command lines. This is rather like > saying that > that children brought up in cities should have no understanding that > animals are slaughtered > so that they can have meat on their plates, because they will never see a > slaughter-house. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
