Steven Taylor wrote: > Maybe someone could write a book about, "Is there hope for mortals?" Just so happens I'm collecting notes for a tongue-in-cheek monograph (pls pm me with contributions): "Evidence for Intelligent Design in the Emergence of IT Products" ...as things stand I'll be concluding by-and-large there isn't any.
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Steven Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10 April 2013 15:41, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've spent a lot of time nibbling away at the edges of this very problem. > > > sometimes it makes sense: http://lesscss.org/. Sometimes not: > https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki. For some crazy reason this > one > appeals to me: http://trydecaf.org/. ... and this is just scratching the > surface ;-) > > Whenever someone get's deeply into language design, it's a good thing. > There's lots to discover that you only realise through doing... hacking... > or even (perish the thought) designing. There's something about APL / J / > K that I don't get. Is it true that a lot of these innovations occurred in > short time periods? I've heard a few comments and got that sense now and > then. If so, we're not dealing with evolution or design by committee, but > something else that hopefully Catherine will help us understand better > through her documentary. Maybe someone could write a book about, "Is there > hope for mortals?" > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
