Originally, the VPRI claims to be able to do a system that's 10,000
smaller than our current bloatware. That's going from roughly 200
million lines to 20,000. (Or, as Alan Kay puts it, from a whole library
to a single book.) That's 4 orders of magnitude.
From the report, I made a rough break
On 28 February 2012 16:41, BGB cr88...@gmail.com wrote:
- 1 order of magnitude is gained by removing feature creep. I agree
feature creep can be important. But I also believe most feature
belong to a long tail, where each is needed by a minority of users.
It does matter, but if the
Hi Loup
Very good question -- and tell your Boss he should support you!
If your boss has a math or science background, this will be an easy sell
because there are many nice analogies that hold, and also some good examples in
computing itself.
The POL approach is generally good, but for a
Hi Reuben
Yep. One of the many finesses in the STEPS project was to point out that
requiring OSs to have drivers for everything misses what being networked is all
about. In a nicer distributed systems design (such as Popek's LOCUS), one would
get drivers from the devices automatically, and
Dear Alan,
Am 28.02.12 14:54, schrieb Alan Kay:
Hi Ryan
Check out Smalltalk-71, which was a design to do just what you suggest
-- it was basically an attempt to combine some of my favorite
languages of the time -- Logo and Lisp, Carl Hewitt's Planner, Lisp
70, etc.
do you have a detailled
As I mentioned, Smalltalk-71 was never implemented -- and rarely mentioned (but
it was part of the history of Smalltalk so I put in a few words about it).
If we had implemented it, we probably would have cleaned up the look of it, and
also some of the conventions.
You are right that part of
On 2/28/2012 10:33 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
On 28 February 2012 16:41, BGBcr88...@gmail.com wrote:
- 1 order of magnitude is gained by removing feature creep. I agree
feature creep can be important. But I also believe most feature
belong to a long tail, where each is needed by a
On 2/28/2012 5:36 PM, Julian Leviston wrote:
On 29/02/2012, at 10:29 AM, BGB wrote:
On 2/28/2012 2:30 PM, Alan Kay wrote:
Yes, this is why the STEPS proposal was careful to avoid the
current day world.
For example, one of the many current day standards that was
dismissed immediately is
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Charles Perkins ch...@memetech.com wrote:
I think of the code size reduction like this:
A book of logarithm tables may be hundreds of pages in length and yet the
equation producing the numbers can fit on one line.
VPRI is exploring runnable math and is
