Wouldn't it be best to make programming a bit like single lens photography
instead of dual (or triple) lens photography? It would seem like the fewer
lenses you use, the less likely it would be for one of them to be scratched.
Unless somehow there was a compensating factor in the lenses.
My
Maybe we shouldn't be focusing on FPGAs and instead focus on memristors.
On Dec 7, 2012 1:37 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
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It seems like the more views we create, the more jobs we create. Perhaps we
should be grouping views into skill sets, interests, or organizational roles.
What kinds of capabilities are required for each view and which type of people
does the organization want manipulating the capabilities?
/2012, at 3:09 AM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
So I was just designing a generic architecture presentation, and I came
up with 5 different types of views. Are there more?
Editor (programmer, designer, scripter)
Debugger (programmer)
Browser (end user, player, sharing
The reason is to keep my brain active. I like categorizing stuff. Here's
another take on the same thing:
Creating Habits
Performing Behavior
Introspecting Behavior
Watching Behavior
Controlling Behavior
Protecting Behavior
Sharing Behavior
Criticizing Behavior
Commenting on Behavior
How many
I for one am thankful for getting rid of CRTs. It's better than having the
world flashing in front of my eyes like a CRT.
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 11:21 AM, John Pratt jpra...@gmail.com wrote:
There is one other problem with modern computers: anti-aliasing
is an injurious blur that can never
Or going out and sledding in the snow with my daughter. Have a white
Christmas everyone!
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 11:28 AM, John Pratt jpra...@gmail.com wrote:
I want to tell everyone on this list about something I found.
Maybe someone out there hears what I say, thinks I am pretty
crazy
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 12:37 AM, BGB cr88...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/22/2012 9:11 PM, Julian Leviston wrote:
I think you've missed the point.
The point is... you need to use your body and your emotions as well as
your mind. Our society is overly focussed on the mind.
could be, fair
John,
The FONC grant is done. Let it be. Please leave your email behavior at
the door. As to why science cannot believe in such things is because of
Godel's Incompleteness Theorems. Science doesn't have an axiom for it like
it does for a point (in math).
Find the most succinct axiom you can
Sorry, I use it too much. What I was trying to say was that science
doesn't have an axiom for Falun Dafa, like science has for a point.
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 6:03 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
John,
The FONC grant is done. Let it be. Please leave your email behavior
, 2012, at 4:03 PM, John Carlson wrote:
John,
The FONC grant is done. Let it be. Please leave your email behavior at
the door. As to why science cannot believe in such things is because of
Godel's Incompleteness Theorems. Science doesn't have an axiom for it like
it does for a point (in math
, but now I challenge them. Do you have some bad axioms I should
reject, and the reasons behind them?
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 6:27 PM, John Pratt jpra...@gmail.com wrote:
I see. So you let other people think for you.
On Dec 29, 2012, at 4:23 PM, John Carlson wrote:
John, check out
And you let Falun Dafta think for you? Have you say anything positive
about anything else?
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 6:27 PM, John Pratt jpra...@gmail.com wrote:
I see. So you let other people think for you.
On Dec 29, 2012, at 4:23 PM, John Carlson wrote:
John, check out Munchhausen's
sorry folks, I let some messages slip through that were intended for John
P. My mistake
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 7:36 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, my idea of the universe is my own devising, but perhaps I was
influenced by Raelism at a young age without knowing it. I
I would hope that something like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_notationcould be used to specify
computer systems. No, I've never used Z
notation. It looks like WSDL 2.0 contains it. Cucumber seems more
practical, but along the same lines. I've never used Cucumber either. The
problem is that
Has anyone ever attempted to automatically add meaning, semantics, longer
variable names, loops, and comments automatically to code? Just how good
are the beautifiers out there, and can we do better?
No, I'm not asking anyone to break a license agreement. Ideally, I would
want this to work on
I've been collecting references to game POLs on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_entertainment_language ever
since I found Barney Pell's METAGAME. I've also been collecting Game IDEs
on a similar page, which should probably be folded into the game engines
page. Probably some of
Although I have read very little about the design of the web, things are
starting to gel in my mind. At the lowest level lies the static or
declarative part of the web. The html, dom, xml and json are the main
languages used in the declarative part. Layered on top of this is the
dynamic or
I've done some postscript programming. I guess I see the shading languages
more a successor to postscript than any revival of display postscript and
its onerous licensing. People are already trying to put javascript into
the gpu. I haven't seen nile, but I assume that it works with gpus. What
If doing experiment means experimenting with meaning, I agree.
On Feb 13, 2013 3:17 PM, Barry Jay barry@uts.edu.au wrote:
**
Hi Alan,
the phrase I picked up on was doing experiments. One way to think of the
problem is that we are trying to automate the scientific process, which is
a
reason
chooses the experiments, and uses them to test hypotheses, i.e. to extract
meaning, so perhaps experimenting for meaning or experimenting to
recover, or discover, meaning is closer to what I had in mind.
On 02/14/2013 08:21 AM, John Carlson wrote:
If doing experiment means experimenting
Miles wrote:
There's a pretty good argument to be made that what works are powerful
building blocks that can be combined in lots of different ways;
So the next big thing will be some version of minecraft? Or perhaps the
older toontalk? Agentcubes? What is the right 3D metaphor? Does anyone
On Feb 13, 2013 7:57 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net
wrote:
Ahh... but my argument is that the architecture of the current web is
SIMPLER than earlier concepts but has proven more powerful (or at least
more effective).
If you believe that, I've got a perl script I want to sell
. X3D is a
textual language. When asked about security on the X3D-public list, the
suggestion was to use session idsyeah, right, one key for the whole
browser.
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Miles Fidelman
mfidel...@meetinghouse.netwrote:
John Carlson wrote:
Miles wrote:
There's
:18 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
Ah, I thought DIS only sent id, position, orientation, velocity and
acceleration. Do objects own their properties, or can anyone on the
network provide them?
I've heard of people mixing X3D with DIS. I thought that X3D provided all
the modelling
mfidel...@meetinghouse.netwrote:
John Carlson wrote:
On Feb 13, 2013 7:57 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.netmailto:
mfidelman@**meetinghouse.net mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote:
Ahh... but my argument is that the architecture of the current web is
SIMPLER than earlier concepts
, 2013 at 5:55 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
Miles wrote:
There's a pretty good argument to be made that what works are powerful
building blocks that can be combined in lots of different ways;
So the next big thing will be some version of minecraft? Or perhaps the
older toontalk
That is, can one make money with Open Cobalt?
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:17 AM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
Alan,
Any news if Open Cobalt supports auctions, banks, or ads yet?
Thanks,
John
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
And of course
/wiki/Virtual_world#cite_note-43
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:22 AM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
That is, can one make money with Open Cobalt?
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:17 AM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
Alan,
Any news if Open Cobalt supports auctions, banks, or ads yet
On Feb 14, 2013 12:52 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net
wrote:
Well, at least in principle, drop an html file in a directory (behind a
server) and it gets served (or drop it in a WebDAV folder).
That sounds like the web circa 1993.
Again, you have to configure all the hyperlinks
(error messages).
On Feb 14, 2013 2:45 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net
wrote:
John Carlson wrote:
On Feb 14, 2013 12:52 PM, Miles Fidelman
mfidel...@meetinghouse.netmailto:
mfidelman@**meetinghouse.net mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote:
Well, at least in principle, drop
Perhaps. I believe for anything to truly succeed, it should support secure
commerce. Does the current text infrastructure support secure commerce?
Or are we lying to ourselves?
On Feb 14, 2013 12:10 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote:
On 2013-02-14, at 16:22, John Carlson yottz
What I am suggesting is using full http with json is superior to rest. For
your session id based puts, how are you accumulating errors? Or are you?
On Feb 14, 2013 3:26 PM, David Barbour dmbarb...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:01 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
PUTs
REST was a simplification of HTTP. I am merely reporting backlash against
REST. Also there is backlash against XML which is why people are using
JSON. There was probably quite a bit of design of HTTP, but I could see
MIME being replaced with something else.
Is there any truth to the rumor
Here's where I believe the issue lies: 1. Adding approximately 100 or more
objects to a collection backed by a relational database, in an interactive
system. I believe the time for the transaction(s) took too long. I am not
sure if the REST service supported by the database used a single
Miles wrote:
For the most part, if you want to retrieve JSON data, you need to use
some protocol - the RESTful model is to address the data with a URL, and
use an HTTP GET. If you want to upload or replace some data, you use HTTP
PUT, and to delete it you use HTTP DELETE. That's about as simple
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John Carlson wrote:
Here's where I believe the issue lies: 1. Adding approximately 100 or
more objects to a collection backed by a relational database, in an
interactive system. I believe the time for the transaction(s) took too
long. I am not sure if the REST service
You are speculating that it is too slow. Have you benchmarked it?
I didn't benchmark it. Someone else did. The bechmarking was done right as
I was joining the project. It's been a while. The database team
controlled the REST services at the time. I suspect, but am unsure, that
the REST
are
protected both ways I believe.
Still, that's a lot of open connections.
On Feb 15, 2013 2:58 AM, J. Andrew Rogers and...@jarbox.org wrote:
On Feb 15, 2013, at 12:10 AM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
I can't say anything about REST in general being slow. I would like to
see better
, David Barbour dmbarb...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:10 AM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
The way I read rest over http post (wikipedia) is that you either create
a new entry in a collection uri, or you create a new entry in the element
uri, which becomes a collection
The last they should be POSTs.
Forgive my typos. For some unknown reason I am using my phone
On Feb 15, 2013 3:52 AM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
The most important paragraph is at the bottom.
It depends on the implementation of PUT. If it's implemented as a delete
followed
:
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 1:52 AM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
I believe the best thing to do is use POST to create objects and quit
trying to fool people with your smartness. You're only asking for trouble
if you do otherwise.
Ah, the people are too dumb to understand anything
Sorry we got into a big discussion about the web. I really want to discuss
POLs for rules, css being one of them. And in particular, once we have a
good POL, how to test it, and author with it--how to create a great POL
program?
But what about probablistic rules? Can we design an ultimate
I know of a few sites/tools which critcise your wesite...is there one for
css?
On Feb 15, 2013 1:02 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry we got into a big discussion about the web. I really want to
discuss POLs for rules, css being one of them. And in particular, once we
have
I guess what I am asking for is a critic service. For both POLs and uses
of POLs. Can POLs be designed such that uses of POLs ensure good design?
Good architecture? I am way beyond my technical knowledge here.
On Feb 15, 2013 1:19 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
I know of a few
if you're going to do something surprising, then document it next to the
code.
On Feb 15, 2013 1:33 PM, David Barbour dmbarb...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:30 AM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
The most valuable part of the POST is the database generated ID. I
realize
I am against showing ids to the end user. With rest you can do a get on a
collection uri and see all the entry ids.
On Feb 15, 2013 1:33 PM, David Barbour dmbarb...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:30 AM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
The most valuable part of the POST
making the validation of the how possible. BDD (behavior driven
development) is the closest approach I have found to this - however the
silver bullet of automatic validation from your declared behaviors is far
from having been found.
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:33 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com
validation from your declared behaviors is far
from having been found.
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:33 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
I guess what I am asking for is a critic service. For both POLs and uses
of POLs. Can POLs be designed such that uses of POLs ensure good design?
Good
programming' tends to
bridge the gap with HCI.)
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:33 AM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
I guess what I am asking for is a critic service. For both POLs and uses
of POLs. Can POLs be designed such that uses of POLs ensure good design?
Good architecture? I am way
to this - however the
silver bullet of automatic validation from your declared behaviors is far
from having been found.
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:33 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
I guess what I am asking for is a critic service. For both POLs and uses
of POLs. Can POLs
I.e.: given new code is checked in
When code coverage is complete
And all tests succeed
Then deploy to integration
On Feb 15, 2013 3:30 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
Could one analyze the test code (not the main source code) assuming it is
complete enough and make a determination
Sounds like a fancy shell program. I have considered temporal state
machines which recognize temporal state machines? I talked with one person
who had researched them in europe. I think they may be handled in
augmented transition machines.
You may want to look at promises as well. I think
So is anyone looking at binary parser generators? It would seem like
something like this would have been done ages ago.
On Mar 25, 2013 12:07 PM, Andre van Delft andre.vande...@gmail.com
wrote:
Op 25 mrt. 2013, om 17:35 heeft John Tromp john.tr...@gmail.com het
volgende geschreven:
PGA is
I'm not sure if this is on subject or not. I recently considered not only
copying data between applications, but also copying behavior. I know the
typical response would be to tell the user to go find the behavior in the
source code or library. What if some simple keystrokes could copy and
paste
I'm thinking more about copying behavior between different address spaces.
On Mar 29, 2013 11:27 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki.ohsh...@acm.org wrote:
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 9:19 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure if this is on subject or not. I recently considered not only
What's a plant and what is an animal?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysia_chlorotica
Fwiw,
John
On Apr 3, 2013 3:41 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
For me, classification, taxonomy, categorization, schema and ontology are
contentious ideas.
Fwiw,
Johb
On Apr 3, 2013 2:56 PM
I didn't see lojban mentioned. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban
On Apr 4, 2013 3:19 PM, Kirk Fraser overcomer@gmail.com wrote:
The main source of invention is not math wins as described on
http://www.vpri.org/html/work/ifnct.htm since the world would be speaking
math if it were
Esperanto was intended to be a human understandable language. Lojban is
intended to be a computer and human understandable language...huge
difference.
On Apr 4, 2013 3:39 PM, Kirk Fraser overcomer@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:26 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
I
Natural languages include tenses. What computer systems have a wide
variety of tenses?
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I once hear it said that Jesus didn't tell us to be perfect, instead he
told us to mature and bear good fruit. Have you?
On Apr 6, 2013 5:32 AM, Kirk Fraser overcomer@gmail.com wrote:
Most likely your personal skills at natural language are insufficient to
understand Revelation in the
Sorry. I meant heard. Obviously I am imperfect. I have read Foucault's
Pendulum, however. Maybe we should start quoting it instead of the Bible.
On Apr 6, 2013 9:36 AM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
I once hear it said that Jesus didn't tell us to be perfect, instead he
told us
My favorite Umberto Eco quote from Foucault's Pendulum is vous etes fou
(sorry english keyboard).▲
On Apr 6, 2013 9:53 AM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry. I meant heard. Obviously I am imperfect. I have read Foucault's
Pendulum, however. Maybe we should start quoting
When I was studying Revelation in the 1980s. We thought this same
scripture referred to the European Union. We also thought that Jesus had
to return by 1988, because that was one generation past when the Jews
returned to Israel in 1948. It seems that god has a way of overturning
predictions.
cr88...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/6/2013 10:59 AM, John Carlson wrote:
When I was studying Revelation in the 1980s. We thought this same
scripture referred to the European Union. We also thought that Jesus had
to return by 1988, because that was one generation past when the Jews
returned
And by 2028, we will be living 120 years or more, which will extend the
end-event even more.
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 11:12 AM, BGB cr88...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/6/2013 10:59 AM, John Carlson wrote:
When I was studying Revelation in the 1980s. We thought this same
scripture referred
On further review the person in question admitted being human...one of
God's bots he says. I'm trying to convince him that God wants more than
bots.
I just realized the religious discussion was likely created by a bot.
Sorry. John
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Why math/logic loses, munchhausen trilemma:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchhausen_trilemma
On Apr 7, 2013 8:20 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
On further review the person in question admitted being human...one of
God's bots he says. I'm trying to convince him that God
I looked at Lt. Reminds me of John Orwant's Extensible Graphical Game
Generator. If you like s-expressions, there are other DSLs for games from
stanford and australia. Are you envisioning a DSL for NLP?
On Apr 7, 2013 9:27 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
What is the Peano of NLP
It would seem like NLP should be based on phonemes, not written language.
One cannot say what the name of God is, because written Hebrew lacks
vowels. We should go with phonemes, I believe.
On Apr 7, 2013 9:36 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
I looked at Lt. Reminds me of John
So it's message recognition and not actor recognition? Can actors
collaborate to recognize a message? I'm trying to put this in terms of
subjective/objective. In a subjective world there are only messages
(waves). In an objective world there are computers and routers and
networks (actors,
Sometimes I think that something like http://leapmotion.com will use
something like Ameslan to revolutionize programming. Maybe programming
will become less sedentary and more like dance dance revolution.
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I thought the desktop metaphor was programming.
On Apr 9, 2013 12:08 PM, David Barbour dmbarb...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Chris Warburton chriswa...@googlemail.com
wrote:
There is a distinction between programming a mobile phone and
programming when mobile.
True
Base 13 folks.
On Apr 12, 2013 3:41 AM, GrrrWaaa grrrw...@gmail.com wrote:
It doesn't reply forty-two?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081019212355AAHkApl
On Apr 9, 2013, at 5:48 PM, Casey Ransberger wrote:
It's tragic that Siri can't tell me what you get when you multiply
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1347
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Btw, is this the same Griswold of Snobol and Icon (programming languages)
fame?
On Apr 12, 2013 3:20 PM, shaun gilchrist shaunxc...@gmail.com wrote:
One of the fundamentals we are all still grasping at is how to teach
programming. These are links to people attempting to contribute something
Is the holy grail of FONC to create an environment where you can use command
line, text editor, IDE, and end-user programming to program the same program?
Are there any other ways to program? Circuit boards? I believe FONC includes
this. Speech and gestures? Does FONC provide a way to use
One initiative which is interesting is Worlds which could function as a
kind of exploratory programmer's undo. This has been covered in various
papers on the VPRI writings page, and touched upon IIRC in some of the NSF
updates. It's actually IMHO one of the unsung heroes of what these people
have
Does anyone have a fast API for getting/putting the nth line of a file?
This would replace a relational way of storing strings, caching is
acceptable. C++ is preferred.
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then
how many transcendental symbols are there? I think you still run into
Russell's Paradox.
On Apr 20, 2013 9:15 PM, Simon Forman forman.si...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/20/13, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
Do you need one symbol for the number infinity and another for denoting
that a set
Take my word for it, theory comes down to Monday Night Football on ESPN.
On Apr 20, 2013 10:13 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
I think that concepts in some sense transcend the universe. Are there
more digits in pi than there are atoms in the universe? I guess we are
asking
Here's my theory: reduce arguing with the compiler to minimum. This means
reducing programmers' syntax errors. Only add syntax to reduce errors (the
famous FORTRAN do loop error). The syntax that creates errors should be
removed.
On Apr 20, 2013 11:18 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote
If there truly is a universal language, is it a systems language? A logic
language can describe hardware. What about things like pointers? Have
they come up with self-referential logic?
On Apr 20, 2013 11:18 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
I think it's better to work from examples
on collections of domain widgets?
On Apr 21, 2013 12:02 AM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, you're right. The theory is coming up with a syntax free language.
Can you?
On Apr 21, 2013 12:00 AM, David Barbour dmbarb...@gmail.com wrote:
How is that a theory? Sounds like a design
Looking for systems like this I found app-inventor activity starter on my
phone. Has anyone tried this?
On Apr 21, 2013 12:14 AM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
I believe the key to this is to create domain widgets. I am not sure if
this needs to be something like etoys, maybe
this by
demonstration? How about excel? With a dynamic collection? What will
work on android jelly bean? I'm away from my desktop right now.
On Apr 21, 2013 12:22 AM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
Looking for systems like this I found app-inventor activity starter on my
phone. Has anyone tried
Carlson yottz...@gmail.com:
If you want a more complex use case, create a loop 10 times around the
collection add loop to insert a calculator into the collection.
On Apr 21, 2013 12:48 AM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
Here's a semipractical use case: add 1 to the display in each
, Chris Warburton chriswa...@googlemail.com
wrote:
John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com writes:
If there truly is a universal language, is it a systems language? A
logic
language can describe hardware. What about things like pointers? Have
they come up with self-referential logic?
On Apr
One such test automation system is Sikuli, which uses images and image
recognition as key components. To implement the image as 1D text seems
rather foolhardy.
On Jul 20, 2013 4:09 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
I think one thing that has succeeded is macro editors. You can make
Another program which has worked well in dual text/graphic mode has been
dreamweaver. Yes I understand it may not do all the behavior you want.
However it doesn't stop you from adding that behavior.
On Jul 20, 2013 4:13 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
One such test automation system
.
On Jul 20, 2013 4:20 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
Another program which has worked well in dual text/graphic mode has been
dreamweaver. Yes I understand it may not do all the behavior you want.
However it doesn't stop you from adding that behavior.
On Jul 20, 2013 4:13 PM, John
Don't forget to engage the right side of your brain and the corpus callosum.
On Jul 20, 2013 11:22 AM, frank fr...@frankhirsch.net wrote:
On 07/20/2013 04:21 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
3) Get rid of established but unnatural ways of manipulating data.
Most importantly, get rid of flat
The structures you need when programming behavior are lists of operations,
something like lisp's cond with parameters, and the ability to refer to a
cond from anywhere in the program (recursion, procedure call). Everything
else is icing on the cake.
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You would have to create a JSON object which would have key (identifier),
value pairs.
On Jul 21, 2013 3:22 PM, James McCartney asy...@gmail.com wrote:
I thought about this briefly. One issue is how to distinguish literal
strings from identifiers.
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 10:28 AM, John
is how to distinguish literal
strings from identifiers.
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 10:28 AM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm. I've been thinking about creating a macro language written in JSON
that operates on JSON structures. Has someone done similar work? Should I
just create
Or numbers for pointers...
On Jul 21, 2013 3:43 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
I think what would be more difficult would be identifying what is
persistent and what is runtime values. Also, JSON doesn't contain
pointers, so one would have to use strings for pointers.
On Jul 21
What makes this important is whether your running in stateless or stateful
mode. If you only run the macro once no big deal. If you try to run on a
server, you may find that you need to reset items like cursors to their
original values.
On Jul 21, 2013 3:43 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com
that then you might as well go *all*
the way and re-invent half of Common Lisp :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
Alan Moore
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 10:28 AM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm. I've been thinking about creating a macro language written in JSON
), and whatever values are left blank
(eg: album: []) gets populated with results. It has the littany of
standard database query features as well, like ordering and limits and
ranges and whatnot: http://mql.freebaseapps.com
Hope this helps!
-- Chris
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 4:45 PM, John Carlson
and
ranges and whatnot: http://mql.freebaseapps.com
Hope this helps!
-- Chris
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 4:45 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
Or numbers for pointers...
On Jul 21, 2013 3:43 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
I think what would be more difficult would
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