Three posts that caught my eye today. #### Ruby School Gregory Brown over on O'Reilly net [has an article about using Ruby in Computer Science courses](http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/05/ruby_academically_viable.html), at least in later algorithm classes. It's not a bad argument, but I think it'd be more convincing if the Ruby example was a...

We interrupt Python week to bring you the following alternative programming rant. I know, Python week has sort of gone up in smoke. But one of our mottoes here is "Whenever a Hugo Award winning SF novelist writes a hyperbolic screed about BASIC in the public schools, 10 Print Hello...