On 7/29/2011 7:06 PM, David Barbour wrote:
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 5:08 PM, BGB cr88...@gmail.com
mailto:cr88...@gmail.com wrote:
Linden Labs tried to do similar with Second Life, but it hasn't
really caught on very well in-general.
however, most prior attempts: VRML, Adobe
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
By the way, a wonderful example of the QWERTY phenomenon is that both the
Greeks and the Romans actually did calculations with an on-table or
on-the-ground abacus that did have a zero (the term for the small stone
employed
was a calculus) but used a much older set of conventions for writing
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 1:19 PM, BGB cr88...@gmail.com wrote:
concurrency doesn't care, because both multithreading and message queues
can be readily used with the stack machine abstraction.
I'm not saying you cannot use them, BGB. I'm saying that they're *
complications*, i.e. that the
