[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Interesting article and this is something I've been saying for a while. > There isn't a whole lot of science in computer science just not. Not > compared to something like bridge building. > > http://www.windley.com/archives/2006/02/alan_kay_is_com.shtml > >
Nice post. The author's notes sure make me wish the talk was recorded. Here is a nice quote about a course Kay took from Bob Barton: "Alan says that his course from Barton was the most valuable one he took in college because Barton garbage collected their minds." another nice one: """ “Science is not there to tell us about the Universe, but to tell us how to talk about the Universe.” (Niels Bohr). Science helps us to be more reasonable about reasoning. It’s set up so that we get better and better maps (abstractions) not perfect maps. """ a couple more quotes I liked: "When people react instantly, they’re not thinking, they’re doing a table lookup." "The perversity of science is that world doesn’t change just because we get a different perspective of it." There was a link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B5000 in one of the comments. This was interesting, too. Another of the author's remarks found in the comments was: "I probably didn't capture it well and Alan wasn't specific, but two things I understood he thought ought to be taught first were parallelism and loose coupling. He mentioned that the Internet is more about those two things that it is about data structures and algorithms." Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
