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again that bullshit about 'notability'. it's a relatively well known language so stfu pls — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.35.156.186 (talk) 23:20, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, BYOB (and Scratch, and so on) represent new view at the programming as the discipline. BYOB in particular adds good value on the top of Scratch allowing creation of bigger projects. Would not be surprised if in 10 years this (or similar) language will be among top5 programing languages -let me note that (although it is subjective), ...and so BYOB is more notable now :)

Wts2000 (talk) 20:58, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

How could anyone question whether this educational programming language is "notable"?? Obviously it is notable - it is one of the best implementations of an educational programming language around!

Perhaps someone was confused and thought that only commercial programming languages (eg, Java, C++) are "notable".

However, educational programming languages are also quite important.

In the mid-70s, for example, I learned the language "Logo" (using "turtle geometry") at MIT, while I was in high school. This was my first exposure to computer programming - and I later went on to work as a computer programmer for many years.

So educational programming languages are quite important, to introduce young people to programming.

Now I do some teaching to non-programmers, and I plan on using BYOB/Snap with them. It is better than Scratch - because BYOB/SNAP supports things like procedures and recursion, which are central concepts in programming.

I am very happy I found this educational programming language, and my students will be happy too! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.126.251.187 (talk) 03:38, 17 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not a video game

Why is this article supposed to be relevant to video games?

Also: I am one of the developers of BYOB. I could improve this article, but it's my impression that that would be frowned upon. Am I right about that? Briankharvey (talk) 03:14, 31 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]