It occurs to me that as a newbie to FB^4 and to TWM, I might 
contribute to the production of much needed docs for TWM. I'm rather 
busy with another project right now, but it should ease off over the 
holidays and I might make a start then. I think a newbie might do a 
good job because being naive, I have yet to get over the "conceptual 
hurdles" inherent in learning anything new. Example:

If my wife, a retired school teacher, wrote 5 - 2 = ? on the 
blackboard for kids who just learning subtraction, and explained that 
this meant "five, take away two leaves what?", about 50% of the class 
would shout "5". Perfectly logical too: take the number "2" out of 
the expression and you're left with the number 5 and we won't worry 
about those other symbols. They have failed to grasp the concept of 
making this equation into "remove two objects from a set of five 
objects and there are three left". They're dealing with the numbers 
themselves as the objects instead of making the required abstraction 
to a set of unnamed objects.

As a first effort (and part of my own learning experience) I could 
try to describe every element on Bernie's pallets by looking it up in 
Staz' "Switching to Future Basic" handbook and in the other materials 
that come with FB^4. I would post these to Bernie for his comments, 
and they can be refined as we went along. This won't be fast - it's a 
spare time thing - but I'd like to do it, I have a lot of experience 
writing techie stuff (I'm a retired engineering professor, ex-Head of 
a department, and ex-Dean of Engineering, now consulting to avoid 
cobwebs).

This is not yet a promise; I'm contemplating it - but if Bernie would 
rather I not do it because of other plans, now's the time to say so.

Adam

At 1:12 PM +0000 12/14/04, bernie wrote:
>On Dec 14, 2004, at 12:38, Adam Bell wrote:
>
>>Not sure if it was clear from my earlier comment that I belong to this club.
>>Unless Bernie has an unusual foot, he can put his sock back on. I claim a
>>thumb.
>
>
>Ah!... I meant two mittenless hands as well as a sockless foot  :)
>
>Bernie
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