On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Carl Tollander <c...@plektyx.com> wrote:
> What was the client's problem again? Darned if I can tell, this Universal Interface Language seems to have no document attached to it. The video from OOPSLA, http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2950949730059754521, seems pretty incoherent to me. The video introduces meta-programming at minute 50 of 64, but the only positive example there is The Art of the MetaObject Protocol which he admits is incomprehensible unless you're already a CLOS expert. And we all know how the CLOS MetaObject protocol has taken the world by storm in the last 12 years. I really liked the observation that the velocity of proteins in cells, expressed in protein diameters, becomes 4x the speed of light when scaled to Volkswagens in Volkswagen diameters. Thermal motion in cells is violent. For all my molecular dynamics simulations, I never thought of what was going on quite like that. "I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind". -- rec --
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