Re: [fonc] Physics Simulation (Re: Everything You Know (about Parallel Programming) Is Wrong!: A Wild Screed about the Future)

2012-04-19 Thread Josh Gargus
On Apr 12, 2012, at 5:12 PM, BGB wrote: On 4/11/2012 11:14 PM, Josh Gargus wrote: On Apr 8, 2012, at 7:31 PM, BGB wrote: now, why, exactly, would anyone consider doing rendering on the server?... One reason might be to amortize the cost of global illumination calculations. Since much

Re: [fonc] Smalltalk-75

2012-04-19 Thread Alan Kay
Well, part of it is that the 15 year old was exceptional -- his name is Steve Putz, and as with several others of our children programmers -- such as Bruce Horn, who was the originator of the Mac Finder -- became a very good professional. And that Smalltalk (basically Smalltalk-72) was quite

Re: [fonc] Smalltalk-75

2012-04-19 Thread Fernando Cacciola
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote: Well, part of it is that the 15 year old was exceptional -- his name is Steve Putz, and as with several others of our children programmers -- such as Bruce Horn, who was the originator of the Mac Finder -- became a very good