On 21/08/2011, at 12:22 AM, John McKeon wrote:
>
>
> 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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I find Alan's email slightly obscure - I thought I understood what it meant...
but then John, yours is so abstracted away from anything I know to be in
reality, that I find I don't really understand Alan's email either. In concrete
terms, what are you talking about? Could you explain it simply?
What I thought Alan was talking about was just the reification of message
sending... but I think I'm totally lost now.
Sorry!
Julian.
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