Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com writes:
When I said even scientists go against their training I was also
pointing out really deep problems in humanity's attempts at thinking
(we are quite terrible thinkers!).
I think a quite modest improvement would be more powerful
calculators. For example, we
Alan-
Thomas Watson of IBM said:
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/multimedia/think_trans.html
And we must study through reading, listening, discussing, observing and
thinking. We must not neglect any one of those ways of study. The
trouble with most of us is that we fall down on the latter --
Kenneth Clarke once remarked that People in the Middle Ages were as
passionately interested in truth as we are, but their sense of evidence was
very different.
Marshall McLuhan said I can't see it until I believe it
Neil Postman once remarked that People today have to accept twice as much on
Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com writes:
Many of the commenters on this list have missed that evidence and
data requires a fruitful context -- even to consider them! -- and
that better tools and data will only tend to help those who are
already set up epistemologically to use them wisely. (And
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Chris Warburton
chriswa...@googlemail.comwrote:
Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com writes:
Many of the commenters on this list have missed that evidence and
data requires a fruitful context -- even to consider them! -- and
that better tools and data will only
Good point, Casey - it's not just software. I see shabby service and
workmanship all around, an Industrial Crisis brought on by a preoccupation
with short-term gain... although that in itself is amplified by modern
software/communication technology. Hopefully that will all balance out and
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Chris Warburton
chriswa...@googlemail.comwrote:
David Barbour dmbarb...@gmail.com writes:
But favoring a simpler programming model - e.g. one with only
integers, and where the only operation is to add or compare them
-might also help.
If the problem
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 2:11 AM, Chris Warburton
chriswa...@googlemail.comwrote:
I think a quite modest improvement would be more powerful
calculators.
Smart phones? :)
(But seriously.)
Honestly, one of the things I would really want in a more powerful
calculator is a powerful array of
I like Paul's idea here - form a pit of success even for people who tend
to copy-paste.
I'm very interested in unifying PL with HCI/UI such that actions like
copy-paste actually have formal meaning. If you copy a time-varying field
from a UI form, maybe you can paste it as a signal into a
One thing you can do is create a bunch of named widgets that work together
with copy and paste. As long as you can do type safety, and can
appropriately deal with variable explosion/collapsing. You'll probably
want to create very small functions, which can also be stored in widgets
(lambdas).
I'd recommend looking into quartz composer on mac os x.
On Sep 9, 2013 5:11 PM, David Barbour dmbarb...@gmail.com wrote:
I like Paul's idea here - form a pit of success even for people who tend
to copy-paste.
I'm very interested in unifying PL with HCI/UI such that actions like
copy-paste
Also, you could have an input zipper, a flippable conversion area, an
output zipper, and a history of conversion stack.
On Sep 9, 2013 5:11 PM, David Barbour dmbarb...@gmail.com wrote:
I like Paul's idea here - form a pit of success even for people who tend
to copy-paste.
I'm very interested
The trick here is to make the zippers at the meta or schema level.
John
On Sep 9, 2013 6:03 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
Also, you could have an input zipper, a flippable conversion area, an
output zipper, and a history of conversion stack.
On Sep 9, 2013 5:11 PM, David Barbour
Check out Smallstar by Dan Halbert at Xerox PARC (written up in a PARC
bluebook)
Cheers,
Alan
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Thanks, Alan, for this reference. It
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