[fletcher]

In theory the iPad could be the perfect device to build an app for learning children to write simple programs, however apparently the Apple policy does not allow running an interpreter as part of an application, and technically speaking such an app should allow to visually build simple programs that are interpreted, so I guess, game over, but it is a huge lost opportunity.

[sehugg]

Apple allows plenty of interpreters -- Lua, Frotz, C64 emulator, BASIC interpreters, etc. They relaxed their policy about a year ago. I doubt they're going to reject an educational app that teaches programming.