On Monday 01 Aug 2011 1:36:32 AM BGB wrote:
if so, I guess the difference now would be that modern people tend to
have a different perspective WRT numbers, thinking more of linear spaces
with digit rollover (more like an odometer or similar), hence to the
modern mind the roman-numeral
On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 10:27:26 PM 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
: Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com
Sent: Sat, July 30, 2011 3:09:39 PM
Subject: Re: [fonc] HotDraw's Tool State Machine Editor
On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 10:27:26 PM Alan Kay wrote:
Well, we don't absolutely need music notation, but it really helps many
things. We don't need the various notations
: [fonc] HotDraw's Tool State Machine Editor
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
I like to think about simplicity as coming up with the right core
abstractions and the optimal way to distribute complexity among them to
support a large set of use cases.
This phrase comes up so much when talking about computational systems
that I wonder if it can be made more tangible.
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Wesley Smith wesley.h...@gmail.com wrote:
I like to think about simplicity as coming up with the right core
abstractions and the optimal way to distribute complexity among them to
support a large set of use cases.
This phrase comes up so much when talking
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
of it. This confusion is rampant in computer science
Cheers,
Alan
From: Quentin Mathé qma...@gmail.com
To: Fundamentals of New Computing fonc@vpri.org
Sent: Thu, July 28, 2011 12:32:53 PM
Subject: Re: [fonc] HotDraw's Tool State Machine Editor
Hi Alan
*From:* Quentin Mathé qma...@gmail.com
*To:* Fundamentals of New Computing fonc@vpri.org
*Sent:* Thu, July 28, 2011 12:32:53 PM
*Subject:* Re: [fonc] HotDraw's Tool State Machine Editor
Hi Alan,
Le 25 juil. 2011 à 10:08, Alan Kay a écrit :
I don't
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 Mon, 2011-07-25 at 20:17 -0400, John Zabroski wrote:
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
So when people started talking in the 60s about POLs in research (Problem
Oriented Languages -- what are called DSLs today) this seemed like a very
good idea to
This could change in the future to be more general purpose. For example,
hardware-based computations using quaternions and octonions. As far as I am
aware, it isn't done today for purely mathematical reasons; no one knows
how. And as far as I'm aware, such a mathematical breakthrough would
I don't have time to delve into all that. ;-)
The value in quaternions is that they are a compact, direct representation
of a transformation matrix in 3D space, ergo seems ideally suited for 3D
graphics abstractions. Technically, I suppose a software layer could do the
optimization and map it to
On Jul 26, 2011, at 6:34 AM, John Zabroski wrote:
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 6:26 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de
wrote:
On 26.07.2011, at 02:17, John Zabroski wrote:
99% of the chip space on GPUs these days is devoted to 3D, and chip space
for 2D primitives have shrunk
The value in quaternions is that they are a compact, direct representation
of a transformation matrix in 3D space, ergo seems ideally suited for 3D
graphics abstractions. Technically, I suppose a software layer could do the
optimization and map it to SIMD coprocessors, but figuring out
please excuse the double reply here:
I have noticed your previous postings about Geometric Algebra and do find it
interesting, but struggle with figuring out how to apply it.
This is really an under explored area. The best applications are
those that deal with inherently spatial tasks. The
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Josh Gargus j...@schwa.ca wrote:
On Jul 26, 2011, at 6:34 AM, John Zabroski wrote:
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 6:26 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.dewrote:
On 26.07.2011, at 02:17, John Zabroski wrote:
99% of the chip space on GPUs these days is
of software well
enough.
Cheers,
Alan
From: Benoît Fleury benoit.fle...@gmail.com
To: Fundamentals of New Computing fonc@vpri.org
Sent: Sun, July 24, 2011 11:45:10 AM
Subject: Re: [fonc] HotDraw's Tool State Machine Editor
Hi Dr Kay,
thank you for the pointer
The idea of using a grammar to create a user interface goes back at least as
far
as Engelbart's AHI group. They used a distant past cousin of OMeta (called Tree
Meta) to do this. Ca. 1966.
One of the first systems to specify and make graphical grammars (and UIs) via
user interactions was
Hi Dr Kay,
thank you for the pointer to Newman's work I was not aware of.
Regarding the state machine, Engelbart already pointed out that it was
not a good model for user control language in [1].
In the first attempt, the control language was described as a finite
state machine, and the
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