What I glean from studying Guido's, Alan's and Bruce Eckel's writings, is this thing about late binding. You do it all in runtime, basically. You get to be dynamic, aren't under the thumb of a finicky compiler that requires you to predeclare, and thence to "nail down" all your code. Nope,
On 7/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I *do* acknowledge to Mr. Kay exactly what he asks to have acknowledged -
he is in a class of his own.
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No - he needn't care that he offends me.
What I am thoroughly confused about - in all honesty - is that I seem to be
the exception
On 7/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I glean from studying Guido's, Alan's and Bruce Eckel's writings,
is this thing about late binding. You do it all in runtime,
basically. You get to be dynamic, aren't under the thumb of a finicky
compiler that requires you to
Having said that, I still think there is a tension between two approaches.
One is getting people to invest a modicum of effort up from to learn a
small set of good tools like Smalltalk had even 30 years ago (browser,
inspector, debugger and transcript being the core ones) to give a
consistent
On 7/14/06, kirby urner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/14/06, kirby urner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't get the impression Alan Kay is leading the Smalltalk community
anymore. He told us at the summit that he's a SmallTalk slayer.
Also, the slayer moniker isn't completely out of the
While looking around the web looking at issues related to Squeak and
Python and 3D GUI issues(*), I came across this:
The Keyhole Problem.
http://www.aristeia.com/TKP/
From there: This is the web page for my current book project, The
Keyhole Problem. The book explains how some kinds of
Guido van Rossum (on CP4E, in 2000):
... The two major research goals are the development of a prototype
of a new programming curriculum and matching prototype software
comprising a highly user-friendly programming environment... First,
the environment must significantly ease the burden of
On 7/13/06, Andre Roberge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is the philosophy that was behind rur-ple. Users starts writing
simple programs in the robot world, with very few instructions.
However, unlike with Guido van Robot which uses a Python-like syntax,
rur-ple uses Python through and
