Nick Arnett wrote back on Tue Mar 4 07:12:55 PST 2003 > > > should note that I was 9 years old in 1965. >.> > > How'd you get to know all those numbers and acronyms?
> I think my life was programmed for computers. <he, he> happens to some. > When I was 10 or 11, I was part of a project by some Carnegie-Mellon > graduate students doing a thesis on the question of whether or not kids > could learn to program computers. It's sort of strange to think that was > once a mystery. So the work done at MIT with LOGO -- Seymour Papert (Piaget), was post your era? BTW, I don't recall having seen any mention to LOGO during this programming language thread, ...and it is a very deep language. >From MIT Press: Computer Science Logo Style 2/e - 3 vol. set Brian Harvey Volume 1: Symbolic Computing Volume 2: Advanced Techniques Volume 3: Beyond Programming http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=7C7028DA-FB05-47EB-87EA -CFD7F42962BB&ttype=2&tid=3987 (cut and paste as necessary please, if the the line is broken) > Afterwards, I continued to hang out at CMU's math [...snip...] Wow, I'm impressed!, must have been a hoot working with Tim Berners-Lee. What great experiences! I never made it through formal college/university. IBM picked me up when I was 16 (finished high school at night) and all subsequent training was by them or self. > > > Aspect-oriented programming seems to be the latest... > > > > I think you're talking about an addition to Smalltalk, Apostle, AspectJ? > > Wasn't the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) -- aka Xerox doing some > > of the work? > > I don't have any URL's handy but I guess a Google whould show some. > PARC seems to be the thought leader. I bumped into it via AspectJ > (http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/), an IBM Java effort in that direction. > I'm still absorbing the idea. More at http://aosd.net/ I found my URL, to work done at the University of British Columbia, http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/spl/projects/apostle/ for Apostle. I'm currently getting back to some of MIT's Jay Forrester work in System Dynamics. I am using VENSIM (http://www.vensim.com/new.html) Donnela Meadows is somewhat of a hero to me, too bad she had to go. Her book "The Limits to Growth", 1972 is when I started looking at this and _discovered_ Systems Thinking :-) Before she passed away, she had a column in "The Global Citizen" http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf/meadows/default.htm ...I think by now I'm going OT, but here's a shameless plug to "The Miniature Earth" as well. http://www.thesustainablevillage.com/miniature_earth/miniature_earth.htm Cheers! -- Han Tacoma ~ Artificial Intelligence is better than none! ~ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
