If you want a more complex use case,  create a loop 10 times around the
collection add loop to insert a calculator into the collection.
On Apr 21, 2013 12:48 AM, "John Carlson" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Here's a semipractical use case: add 1 to the display in each of a dynamic
> collection of calculators (math domain widgets).  What can do this as
> end-user programming?  It's fairly obvious that a textual language can do
> this.  Can any graphical ones?  Can something like lively kernel do this by
> demonstration?  How about excel?  With a dynamic collection?  What will
> work on android jelly bean?  I'm away from my desktop right now.
> On Apr 21, 2013 12:22 AM, "John Carlson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Looking for systems like this I found app-inventor activity starter on my
> phone.  Has anyone tried this?
> On Apr 21, 2013 12:14 AM, "John Carlson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I believe the key to this is to create domain widgets.  I am not sure if
>> this needs to be something like etoys, maybe a combination between forth
>> and etoys.  I believe collections can make for interesting domain widgets.
>> I have only programmed systems with collections of text.  What systems work
>> on collections of domain widgets?
>> On Apr 21, 2013 12:02 AM, "John Carlson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah, you're right.  The theory is coming up with a syntax free
>>> language.  Can you?
>>> On Apr 21, 2013 12:00 AM, "David Barbour" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> How is that a theory? Sounds like a design principle.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 9:42 PM, John Carlson <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Here's my theory: reduce arguing with the compiler to minimum.  This
>>>>> means reducing programmers' syntax errors.  Only add syntax to reduce
>>>>> errors (the famous FORTRAN do loop error).  The syntax that creates errors
>>>>> should be removed.
>>>>> On Apr 20, 2013 11:18 PM, "John Carlson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I think it's better to work from examples, ala JUnit and end-user
>>>>>> programming than come up with a theory that solves nothing.  One can
>>>>>> compare EGGG to GDL in scope and expressiveness.  One interesting part of
>>>>>> gaming is arguing about rules.  What computer systems do that?
>>>>>> On Apr 20, 2013 11:09 PM, "John Carlson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Practice or practical?  Maybe there's space for practical theory,
>>>>>>> instead of relying on things that don't exist.  Why do we distinguish
>>>>>>> practice from theory?  Seems like a fallacy there.
>>>>>>> On Apr 20, 2013 10:51 PM, "David Barbour" <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> only in practice
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 8:23 PM, John Carlson 
>>>>>>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Take my word for it, theory comes down to Monday Night Football on
>>>>>>>>> ESPN.
>>>>>>>>> On Apr 20, 2013 10:13 PM, "John Carlson" <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I think that concepts in some sense transcend the universe.  Are
>>>>>>>>>> there more digits in pi than there are atoms  in the universe?  I 
>>>>>>>>>> guess we
>>>>>>>>>> are asking if there are transcendental volumes which are bigger or 
>>>>>>>>>> more
>>>>>>>>>> complex than the universe.  If the universe contains the 
>>>>>>>>>> transcendental as
>>>>>>>>>> symbols then how many transcendental symbols are there?  I think you 
>>>>>>>>>> still
>>>>>>>>>> run into Russell's Paradox.
>>>>>>>>>> On Apr 20, 2013 9:15 PM, "Simon Forman" <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/20/13, John Carlson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> > Do you need one symbol for the number infinity and another for
>>>>>>>>>>> denoting
>>>>>>>>>>> > that a set is inifinite?  Or do you just reason about the size
>>>>>>>>>>> of the set?
>>>>>>>>>>> > Is there a difference between a set that is countably infinite
>>>>>>>>>>> and one that
>>>>>>>>>>> > isn't countable?  I barely know Russell's paradox... you're
>>>>>>>>>>> ahead of me.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Well, for what it's worth, quoting from Meguire's 2007 "Boundary
>>>>>>>>>>> Algebra: A Simple Notation for Boolean Algebra and the Truth
>>>>>>>>>>> Functors":
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> "Let U be the universal set, a,b∈U, and ∅ be the null set. Then
>>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>> columns headed by “Sets” show how the algebra of sets and the pa
>>>>>>>>>>> are
>>>>>>>>>>> equivalent.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Table 4-2. The 10 Nontrivial Binary Connectives (Functors).
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Name            Logic  Sets BA
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Alternation      a∨b   a∪b  ab
>>>>>>>>>>> Conditional      a→b   a⊆b  (a)b
>>>>>>>>>>> Converse         a←b   a⊇b  a(b)
>>>>>>>>>>> Conjunction      a∧b   a∩b  ((a)(b))
>>>>>>>>>>>                        ___
>>>>>>>>>>> NOR              a↓b   a∪b   (ab)
>>>>>>>>>>>                        ___
>>>>>>>>>>> Sheffer stroke   a|b   a∩b  (a)(b)
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Biconditional    a↔b   a⊆b⊆a  (((a)b)(a(b))) -or- ((a)(b))(ab)
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> (Apologies if the Unicode characters got mangled!)
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Check out http://www.markability.net/sets.htm also.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I don't know much about set theory but I think the "Universal"
>>>>>>>>>>> set
>>>>>>>>>>> stands for the set of everything, no?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>>>>> ~Simon
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> "The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather
>>>>>>>>>>> like that of
>>>>>>>>>>> an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the
>>>>>>>>>>> prison that
>>>>>>>>>>> restrains and shelters him catches fire, not waking but
>>>>>>>>>>> incorporating the
>>>>>>>>>>> crackling and warmth of the fire with ancient and incongruous
>>>>>>>>>>> dreams, than
>>>>>>>>>>> like that of a man consciously awake to danger and opportunity."
>>>>>>>>>>> --H. P. Wells, "A Short History of the World"
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