P.S. I thought of a different way to possibly resolve this.
It occurs to me that this discussion and differences of opinion could really be
about how executables are made. One of the main issues cited has to do with
security, and a notion that being able to see the sources will help.
The
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 04:21 -0700, Alan Kay wrote:
It was realized that most computing of the 50s and 60s was rather like
synthetic chemistry in which structures are built atom by atom and
molecule by molecule. This gets more and more difficult for larger and
more complex combinations. Life
Continuing with the biological analogy, the folks who want to be able to
bootstrap a Squeak/etoys image (starting from 'scratch' without such an image)
want literally to be able to make ontogeny recapitulate phylogeny -- not
necessarily every time an image starts, possibly not necessarily
On Saturday 28 Jun 2008 4:51:47 pm Alan Kay wrote:
It was realized that most computing of the 50s and 60s was rather like
...
state in which they will become part of the ecology.
I propose that this overview be included as part of Squeak. Squeak is very
different from conventional programming
