H.G. Wells once wrote that an one-eyed man happens upon a blind society does not become its king, for he cannot even function and is thought to be insane.
To me, Mr. Alan Kay is the one-eyed man. Ivan On 2012-10-30, at 11:03 AM, Kurt Stephens <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
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