On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
Smalltalk actually got started by thinking about a way to make a child's
Logo-like language with objects and pattern matching that could express its
own operating system and environment.
It is very tricky to retain/maintain
No. OOP is overhyped anyway... It only helps for namespacing, and
primitive values where encapsulation works. Since children will not make
reusable libraries mostly I think there is no point making things more
complex as they already are. BTW I did not find the second version more
readable but
On Sun, May 22, 2011 11:09 am, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
Le 21/05/2011 03:17,
moku...@earthtreasury.org a écrit :
Seymour Papert also proposed creating an environment in which learning
math would be as easy as learning ordinary language. Smalltalk has a
number of kinds of number and shape
C. Scott Ananian wrote on Sat, 21 May 2011 19:22:01 -0400
I'm familiar with the processors designed for specific high-level
languages. There was another generation of them built for Java
(microblaze, picoblaze, etc) and some of those are even still
commercially significant (they run Java
On Fri, May 20, 2011 2:28 pm, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
This is nice!
Smalltalk actually got started by thinking about a way to make a child's
Logo-like language with objects and pattern matching that could express
its own
On Fri, May 20, 2011 9:32 pm, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
The question is: does this really have educational value? Turtles all
the
way down is a great slogan, and a fine way to teach a graduate-level
class
on compiler technology,
See
* The Anatomy of LISP, by John Allen, and LISP machines, for
I'm familiar with the processors designed for specific high-level
languages. There was another generation of them built for Java
(microblaze, picoblaze, etc) and some of those are even still
commercially significant (they run Java subsets on smart cards).
I'm not terribly interested in those
This is quite interesting.
Recently, I finished my dissertation on mobile development directly
from mobile devices. Something like this might've been very useful,
although I did target experienced developers, not beginners.
Do you plan to make it self-hosted? I guess that wouldn't be possible
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Sent: Fri, May 20, 2011 6:30:08 AM
Subject: [IAEP] Turtles All The Way Down
I've done a little more work on Turtles All The Way Down, which I
(very briefly) discussed at EduJam. I actually wrote a garbage
collector
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
This is nice!
Smalltalk actually got started by thinking about a way to make a child's
Logo-like language with objects and pattern matching that could express its
own operating system and environment.
It is very tricky to
The question is: does this really have educational value? Turtles all the
way down is a great slogan, and a fine way to teach a graduate-level class
on compiler technology, but I feel that the higher-level UI for tile-based
program editing is the really useful thing for tablet computing. I'm a
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