This video reminds me of those great stories about kids at PARC... They are
using Scratch to teach children how to use their Dynabooks :)
From the teachers (Alan has obviously developed a mind control device):
We'd like the outcome of Code Club to be a whole generation that
understands... how
On Nov 7, 2011, at 6:08 PM, karl ramberg wrote:
http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf
It's so exciting to watch the project come along. I can't wait to eventually
play with it!
With every annual report, I think what a shame it is that there are so many
talks given about it (~20 this
Alan,
I'm thinking more deeply about computers and language and have realized that,
after programming for 15 years, I still have no idea what I'm talking about :)
After reading many of the LISP suggestions (thanks), the primary features seem
to me to be:
parsimony (again you got to me and I
On Aug 18, 2011, at 1:15 PM, Alan Kay wrote:
One way to try to think about the idea of Lisp and the larger interesting
issues, is to read the Advice Taker paper by John McCarthy (ca. 56-58
Programs With Common Sense)
On Aug 17, 2011, at 9:41 PM, Alan Kay wrote:
Take a look at Landin's papers and especially ISWIM (The next 700
programming languages)
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Alan,
While we're on the subject, you finally got to me and I started learning LISP,
but I'm finding an entire world, rather than a cohesive language or philosophy
(Scheme - which itself has many variants, Common LISP, etc). What would you
recommend to get it in the way that changes your
Does anyone have a copy of Extending object oriented programming in Smalltalk
by Goldstein and Bobrow, which Alan talks about in The Early History of
Smalltalk?
Thanks.
Sean
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the Boehm/Weiser GC as included in the sources does not compile on Snow
Leopard - this is not a COLA problem.
So no future for mac users then ;-). Bummer...
There is a MacPort of gc7.1 that I successfully installed. Is there any way to
use that?
I tried various sneaky things, including:
We don't plan to wind up using any one else's GC so I wouldn't worry.
Not worried - just excited to play with this stuff!
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Suggestion:
For the Idst/COLA links on http://www.vpri.org/vp_wiki/index.php/Main_Page:
* remove the http://piumarta.com/software/cola/ link, which provides
instructions for the trunk.
* use the http://vpri.org/fonc_wiki/index.php/Installation_Guide which mentions
the stable version first, and
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