Re: [fonc] Physics and Types

2011-08-06 Thread Simon Forman
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:48 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote: That was my thought when I first saw what Seymour Papert was doing with children and LOGO in the 60s. I was thinking about going back into Molecular Biology, but Seymour showed that computers could *really* be important as

Re: [fonc] Physics and Types

2011-08-06 Thread Simon Forman
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Chris Warburton chriswa...@googlemail.com wrote: On Friday 05 August 2011 11:43:04 BGB wrote: On 8/4/2011 6:19 PM, Alan Kay wrote: Here's the link to the paper http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2005001_learning.pdf inference: it is not that basic math and physics

Re: [fonc] Physics and Types

2011-08-06 Thread BGB
On 8/6/2011 7:27 PM, Simon Forman wrote: On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:48 AM, Alan Kayalan.n...@yahoo.com wrote: That was my thought when I first saw what Seymour Papert was doing with children and LOGO in the 60s. I was thinking about going back into Molecular Biology, but Seymour showed that