Don't forget to engage the right side of your brain and the corpus callosum. On Jul 20, 2013 11:22 AM, "frank" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 07/20/2013 04:21 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > >> 3) Get rid of established but unnatural ways of manipulating data. > >> Most importantly, get rid of flat text and find neat graphical > >> representations for the most common structures. > > > > Bouhahaha! > > This! > > There have been so many attempts - by people who were by no means > stupid - to replace text as the primary representation of code! > And ALL of them have failed, miserably! > The best anyone has ever achieved was to enthuse a few managers, > much to the detriment of the engineers who eventually had to use > the shit on a daily basis! > > Also: > 1D representations are established exactly BECAUSE they are NATURAL! > > The logical part of your mind (the neocortex, some people used to call > it the "left half" of the brain, but this has firmly been established > to be a somewhat shitty simplification) works serially in time: > > state(t+1) = f( state(t) , input(t) ) > > It works.... in 1D! An it likes representations in... 1D! > > Cheers, Frank > > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >
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