On 5 January 2011 16:43, Alan Kay <alan.n...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Computing -- like natural > science -- has always been ripe for multiple discoveries of the same ideas > -- and more so than natural science because our "field that never quite > became a field" doesn't really care about its own history.
This is an illusion, BTW, caused by computer science's fecundity over its brief period of existence. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
