Re: [fonc] Building blocks and use of text

2013-02-14 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 2013-02-14, at 07:52, Casey Ransberger casey.obrie...@gmail.com wrote: The next big thing probably won't be some version of Minecraft, even if Minecraft is really awesome. OTOH, you and your kids can prove me wrong today with Minecraft Raspberry Pi Edition, which is free, and comes with

Re: [fonc] Building blocks and use of text

2013-02-14 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 2013-02-14, at 16:22, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote: That is, can one make money with Open Cobalt? I'm pretty sure you chose the wrong mailing list for this question. - Bert - ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org

Re: [fonc] Gezira Plugin for SqueakVM was Re: Final STEP progress report?

2012-11-20 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 2012-11-19, at 20:26, karl ramberg karlramb...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Cyril Hansen cyril.han...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, As an engineer / hobbyist, I have been waiting for the final release of the STEPS projet to communicate about it in my home country / language,

Re: [fonc] new document

2011-11-10 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 09.11.2011, at 23:15, BenoƮt Fleury wrote: Unless I missed it, there is no mention of Dynabook Junior in the last report. Has it been abandoned? replaced? Evolved into Frank. - Bert - ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org

Re: [fonc] Re: a little more FLEXibility

2011-09-06 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 05.09.2011, at 21:03, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote: Michael, ah, but instead of Smalltalk #at:put: you can use any object member's setter. I was just too lazy to write that. :-) If I have two inspectors open, one for MorphA and the other for ObjB, then I don't see what I could type in

Re: a little more FLEXibility (was: [fonc] Re: Ceres and Oberon)

2011-09-01 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 01.09.2011, at 15:17, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote: Was being able to input drawings one of the good things? There was one Lisp GUI that put a lot of effort into allowing you to input objects instead of just text. It did that by outputting text but keeping track of where it came from. So if

Blue vs. Pink (was Re: [fonc] OT: Quake-derived engines...)

2011-08-24 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 24.08.2011, at 09:17, BGB wrote: either way, which color is which is probably not a critical issue... We need to use a common language though. but, I think this was a reference to Apple, which AFAIK had done things like this: Blue=features which can be done now; Pink=features which may

Re: [fonc] Extending object oriented programming in Smalltalk

2011-08-17 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 17.08.2011, at 17:08, Kevin Driedger wrote: Here's a Google Doc conversion of the wayback machine version: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://web.archive.org/web/20070516130537/http://www.dolphinharbor.org/docs/PIE%2520four%2520reports.pdfpli=1 On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:18 PM,

Re: [fonc] Alan Kay talk at HPI in Potsdam

2011-07-25 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 25.07.2011, at 19:13, Jakob Praher wrote: Dear Alan, Dear List, the following very recent announcement might be of interest to this discussion: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.platform/browse_thread/thread/7668a9d46a43e482 To quote Andreas et al.: Mozilla believes

Re: [fonc] Richard Gabriel Guy Steele, 50 in 50 talk

2011-06-24 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 24.06.2011, at 08:22, Julian Leviston wrote: On 24/06/2011, at 4:14 PM, Hans-Martin Mosner wrote: Am 22.06.2011 23:45, schrieb Steve Dekorte: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nii1n8PYLrc Thoughts? Sadly, this can't be watched in Germany (unless you employ TOR or some other mechanism

[fonc] Building jolt

2008-10-09 Thread Bert Freudenberg
I checked out http://piumarta.com/svn2/idst/trunk on OS X and when running make got this error: /bin/sh -ec 'for dir in object function; do ( cd $dir; make ); done' cp -p idc/idc stage1/idc cp -p idc/idc stage2/idc /bin/sh -ec 'for dir in objects jolt-burg jolt2; do ( cd $dir; make ); done'

Re: [fonc] Building jolt

2008-10-09 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 09.10.2008 um 20:15 schrieb Nikolay Suslov: Bert, Thanks, it works! thinking that this instruction could be placed also at: http://vpri.org/fonc_wiki/index.php/Installation_Guide No need to - Ian fixed the Makefile in the mean time. Just update from svn. - Bert -

Re: [fonc] The KAYPRO test ;-) ...from: 64-bit?

2008-06-23 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 23.06.2008 um 12:36 schrieb Steve Taylor: Ken Ritchie wrote: I have a working KAYPRO II - 64K (yes, K bytes of RAM) Z-80 at 2.5MHz (yes, M bits/sec CPU clock). The first computer I was paid to program was a Sinclair Spectrum with 32k or RAM. What are the odds for fonc there?

Re: [fonc] goals

2007-12-07 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Dec 7, 2007, at 14:27 , Waldemar Kornewald wrote: Hi Bert, On Dec 6, 2007 9:45 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 6, 2007, at 21:28 , Waldemar Kornewald wrote: I think my greatest misconception is about the eToys-like language. Will it be a full-fledged general-purpose

Re: [fonc] productivity

2007-11-27 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Nov 27, 2007, at 18:50 , Waldemar Kornewald wrote: I think that the absolute majority of programmers works with a language that has C-like syntax or at least math precedence. And a billion flies can't possibly err, either. - Bert - ___ fonc

Re: [fonc] goal clarifications (was: goals)

2007-11-25 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Nov 25, 2007, at 14:49 , Waldemar Kornewald wrote: On Nov 25, 2007 7:14 AM, Yoshiki Ohshima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- ... a practical working system that is also its own model; a whole system from the end-users to the metal that could be extremely compact (we think under 20,000

Re: [fonc] Variadic Pepsi methods

2007-06-28 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Ian Piumarta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Jun 20, 2007, at 8:20 AM, Michael FIG wrote: I could really use variadic methods. I seem to recall they were being discussed earlier, but I can't find an archive. These haven't worked for a while. The Parser does still recognise '...' at the