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"Scratch does NOT require syntax" --> this sentence alone disqualifies the whole article.

• thinkMOAR 10y ago
  That plus the word 'believe' in the title. If i simply had to accept what others believe as to be the truth...
  • brakmic 10y ago
    Exactly. Here an interesting quote from Alan Kay: "The best teacher I had in graduate school spent the whole semester destroying any beliefs we had about computing. He was a real iconoclast. He happened to be a genius, so we took it. At the end of the course, we were free because we didn’t believe in anything. We had to learn everything, but then he destroyed it. He wanted us to understand what had been done, but he didn’t want us to believe in it."
  • danso 10y ago
    Huh? That's kind of an unfair criticism. The word "believe" is more or less an explicit expression from the author that the article is, well, his belief. As a programmer, I like explicit declaration when reading someone else's "code". The fault is more with you, for automatically associating the phrase "I believe" with implicit brainwashing.
    • thinkMOAR 10y ago
      That is what you are doing yourself now. Dictionary however states something different, believe bɪˈliːv/ verb 1. accept that (something) is true, especially without proof.
  • pjc50 10y ago
    You're badly misinterpreting it then; normally when people put forward something as a truth, they do so categorically. Instead they put the "believe" qualifier in. So they're not presenting it as a truth, but saying "I believe this, for the following reasons; you may agree with my reasoning."