Macros (in the Lisp sense) are still, as far as I know, unique to
Lisp. This is partly because in order to have macros you probably have
to make your language look as strange as Lisp. It may also be because
if you do add that final increment of power, you can no longer claim
to have invented a
Merle, I missed your comment and you are certainly somebody to me
P.
On Mar 3, 2014, at 11:12 PM, Merle Lefkoff merlelefk...@gmail.com wrote:
I commented, and I'm utterly somebody, dear Pamela.
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Pamela McCorduck pam...@well.com wrote:
Utterly nobody
Pamela -
I think there are *many* valid arguments up one side and down the other
of this topic, just as the (false?) dichotomy between Art and Craft.
I also think that while there are arguments for the deep pockets of
government, there are also arguments against it. I can't find a
I apologize for getting a little off topic from the original point being
made here:
My rail is against two things, UberScale Science and the
loss/limitation/coopting of Government Funding of Science.
While the free market has some magic to it, there are times when an
entity charged with
FWIW, I thought you were spot on re: the topic. It seems to me that it
doesn't matter whether the big money is from the government or the
private sector. Big money implies things like big returns, cutting
patients to fit tables, etc. Regardless of who employs the bureaucrat,
their @ss is
Have you received the one with the subject line, Bad things are being said
on line. It give you a link to go to find out your reputation report
Great business model. All I can do not to look to see what they have on me.
But I figure that with the number of people named Nicholas Thompson
NLT Have you received the one with the subject line, Bad things are
being said on line. It give you a link to go to find out your
reputation report
I would say that my junk mail has at least a dozen of *forms* of
phishing in it, though maybe that is *my* junk *plus* my that of my
wife's,
On 3/4/14, 11:33 AM, glen wrote:
Although I haven't participated, I think we can learn quite a bit from
the outright generosity shown by Kickstarter participants.
To me it is important to believe there are things inherently worth
doing, and that there is someone that wants to do them and a
On 3/4/14, 11:33 AM, glen wrote:
Although I haven't participated, I think we can learn quite a bit
from the outright generosity shown by Kickstarter participants.
To me it is important to believe there are things inherently worth
doing, and that there is someone that wants to do them and a
On 3/4/14, 1:12 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
I'll probably trigger Marcus again if I suggest collecting funds to
build a neighborhood park
Can we make it the Glowing Plant park? http://www.glowingplant.com/
Marcus
FRIAM Applied Complexity
Perhaps it was just incredibly fortunate for us that those people—Licklider,
Kahn, Cerf and others—were in a position at a special time to make a dream come
true. They had the ways and means to spend money, and spent it pretty wisely.
Everything the pioneers did wasn’t successful—a big,
On 03/04/2014 11:50 AM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
On 3/4/14, 11:33 AM, glen wrote:
Although I haven't participated, I think we can learn quite a bit from
the outright generosity shown by Kickstarter participants.
To me it is important to believe there are things inherently worth
doing, and
Pamela,
Shrewd observation.
Going back 25+ years earlier than those people, the Cybernetics movement
was a global intellectual effort that was ultimately interested in a
science of mind. Most of its participants were probably academics, and
it included a broad array of passions - not only
Marcus -
I'll probably trigger Marcus again if I suggest collecting funds to
build a neighborhood park
Can we make it the Glowing Plant park? http://www.glowingplant.com/
Very Kewl... but way too creepy to me. Despite the assurances my own
PhD Molecular Biologist daughter gives me about
Perhaps it was just incredibly fortunate for us that those people—Licklider,
Kahn, Cerf and others—were in a position at a special time to make a dream come
true. They had the ways and means to spend money, and spent it pretty wisely.
Everything the pioneers did wasn’t successful—a big,
Glen -
Although I haven't participated, I think we can learn quite a bit from
the outright generosity shown by Kickstarter participants.
To me it is important to believe there are things inherently worth
doing, and that there is someone that wants to do them and a means to
get them done.
I
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