On Saturday, August 20, 2011, Alan Kay <[email protected]> wrote: > (For example) > Try to imagine a system where the parts only receive messages but never explicitly send them. > This is one example of what I meant when I requested that computer people pay more attention to what is in between the parts, than to the parts -- the Japanese have a great short word for it: "ma" -- we don't, and that's a clue that we have a hard time with "what is in between" > Cheers, > Alan >
I like: the ether (it has a more Maxwellian flavor for me :) Then try to imagine an object not in it
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