Hi Alan,
Le 25 juil. 2011 à 10:08, Alan Kay a écrit :
I don't know of an another attempt to build a whole system with wide
properties in DSLs. But it wouldn't surprise me if there were some others
around. It requires more design effort, and the tools to make languages need
to be effective
Well, we don't absolutely *need* music notation, but it really helps many
things. We don't *need* the various notations of mathematics (check out
Newton's
use of English for complex mathematical relationships in the Principia), but it
really helps things.
I do think the hard problem is
On 7/28/2011 9:57 AM, Alan Kay wrote:
Well, we don't absolutely *need* music notation, but it really helps
many things. We don't *need* the various notations of mathematics
(check out Newton's use of English for complex mathematical
relationships in the Principia), but it really helps things.
After I heard about the Wolfram Alpha integration, I decided to give it a shot.
I didn't like the price tag.
At the time I was interested in chemical simulations, and I didn't know of
anything else that'd let me do them out of the box (without requiring me to
already have a much greater
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:16 PM, BGB cr88...@gmail.com wrote:
striving for simplicity can also help, but even simplicity can have costs:
sometimes, simplicity in one place may lead to much higher complexity
somewhere else. [...]
it is better to try to find a simple way to handle issues,
