On 10/3/12 9:53 AM, Paul Homer wrote: > If instead, programmers just built little pieces, and it was the > computer itself that was responsible for assembling it all together into > mega-systems, then we could reach scales that are unimaginable today. To > do this of course, the pieces would have to be tightly organized. Tightly organized != tightly coupled.
> Contributors wouldn't have the freedom they do now, but that's a > necessity to move from what is essentially a competitive environment to > a cooperative one. Some very fixed rules become necessary. > > One question that arises from this type of idea is whether or not it is > even possible for a computer to assemble a massive working system from > say, a billion little code fragments. Genetic Algorithms already do this if one discards the notion of code/data duality. > Paul. -- KAS _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
