[fonc] Messages

2011-08-20 Thread Alan Kay
(For example) Try to imagine a system where the parts only receive messages but never explicitly send them. This is one example of what I meant when I requested that computer people pay more attention to what is in between the parts, than to the parts -- the Japanese have a great short word

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2011-08-20 Thread Julian Leviston
On 21/08/2011, at 12:22 AM, John McKeon wrote: On Saturday, August 20, 2011, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote: (For example) Try to imagine a system where the parts only receive messages but never explicitly send them. This is one example of what I meant when I requested that

Re: [fonc] Messages

2011-08-20 Thread John McKeon
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Julian Leviston jul...@leviston.netwrote: On 21/08/2011, at 12:22 AM, John McKeon wrote: On Saturday, August 20, 2011, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote: (For example) Try to imagine a system where the parts only receive messages but never explicitly

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2011-08-20 Thread GrrrWaaa
medium ? (McLuhan notwithstanding...) On Aug 20, 2011, at 7:22 AM, John McKeon wrote: On Saturday, August 20, 2011, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote: (For example) Try to imagine a system where the parts only receive messages but never explicitly send them. This is one example

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2011-08-20 Thread BGB
On 8/20/2011 9:25 AM, John McKeon wrote: On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Julian Leviston jul...@leviston.net mailto:jul...@leviston.net wrote: On 21/08/2011, at 12:22 AM, John McKeon wrote: On Saturday, August 20, 2011, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com

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2011-08-20 Thread David Barbour
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 9:25 AM, John McKeon p3ano...@gmail.com wrote: The other model has the sun pumping out its messages into the ether to which all objects may (or may not) respond. Much better scaling. Sounds like you want a publish/subscribe model. Anyhow, this and your B12 analogy made