Thank you! l8r Sean
On Mar 9, 2010, at 1:41 PM, John Zabroski wrote: > Folks, > > I am going to take a break from the previous thread of discussion. Instead, > it seems like most people need a tutorial in how to think BIG. > > One person in the last thread asked me how I would design a language in light > of what I know about programming language theory, with questions ranging all > over the subject of how to design languages and how to pick the right > language. I get e-mailed questions like this surprisingly often, such that I > want to eventually publish a FAQ on these things. > > However, I think before I do that, people should be much more intimately > familiar with Alan Kay, Ian Piumarta, and their ideas. > > What I am going to do is gather together a list of Alan's speeches and > interviews and any published media about him I can get my hands on and > assembly it into a wiki, the wik-kay. > > If you're interested in helping, let me know. I am going to start by fully > transcribing Alan Kay's 1997 OOPSLA speech The Computer Revolution Hasn't > Happened Yet, since I've watched it about 20 times so far and am surprised > I've not transfered it to text for faster consumption and easier quoting. > I'll probably hopefully set-up an Etherpad server so people can help > collaborative transcribe this with me (Google Wave is pure garbage at these > kinds of tasks, but Etherpad is the bomb-diggity). > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
