Hi, On Nov 26, 2007 3:13 AM, Steven H. Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the VPRI teaching goals are only indirectly related to the FONC > project. The latter seems to be a reexamination of the programming > process with the goal of developing a unified programming model that > works for OS kernels, device drivers, web servers, distributed > databases, office applications, econometrics models, air traffic control > system, gene sequencing, etc. [...]*snip*
Yes, that's probably the obvious part of it because they explicitly mention a cool programming environment and Alan writes about teaching kids, but I think there is more. One of the other projects is "powerful ideas content and how to represent it". That's very interesting, but this part hasn't been clarified, yet. It seems to target not only children, but also adults. How far will this go? Is it only about knowledge in the sense of Wikipedia or is it about any kind of information (e.g., project management data)? Could this be important for companies (knowledge management)? The goals aren't clearly stated, so I don't know where it stops. The front page makes the goals sound very open-ended. It starts with teaching children and later it mentions "computer revolution" (though, learning always seems to have the focus). Bye, Waldemar Kornewald _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
