On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Casey Ransberger <[email protected]>wrote:
> D'oh, I love touch screens. What I tried to say was that OF is mostly just > Forth, and I think that was what made it so lovely to work with. > > It was nice to be able, for example, to interactively troubleshoot PPC > based Mac hardware using Open Firmware. I seem to be having some trouble > articulating the thought, but I think it really jibes with the idea that an > operating system is a collection of things that don't fit into a language > (paraphrasing Design Principles Behind Smalltalk.) > I remember reading a Chuck Moore quote similar to Dan Ingalls, but with a slightly different perspective. I know its been quoted on Lambda the Ultimate before. Anyone know what I am thinking of? Can't recall it. Basically, as I understand Chuck Moore's way of thinking, he kind of questions everything, to the point of asking, "Why do we even need a file system [abstraction]?" and so and so.
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