Is there an upvote button somewhere? On the one hand, it is probably about damn time we apply those ideas in some "$$ Real World $$" setting. On the other hand, that's definitely an engineer's job.
I have the feeling most of the complexity of current systems come from the acceptance that they have to be that complex. Frank, showed this acceptance is misplaced. This knowledge might give us the drive required to actually simplify our stuff. There might not be any silver bullet, but there's definitely enough silver dust to forge a couple such bullets. Let's forge them! (I swear I'm doing it myself¹, but I only have so much spare time.) [1]: http://loup-vaillant.fr/tutorials/earley-parsing/ Loup. On ven., 2016-09-16 at 07:58 -0700, Casey Ransberger wrote: > Kids, > > We're mostly missing the point. It was a science experiment. Most of > the code is in plain view, and I mean it might be fun to figure it > all out and make it run. But the point was to see if we could use our > language skills to cut down the giant mess of personal computing. > Things that fit on T-shirts and in my limited thoughts. > > But the gift here isn't *code* or a running system. It's this > fantastic pile of research papers that we don't even have to claw our > way through a paywall to access. > > --Casey > _______________________________________________ > Fonc mailing list > Fonc@mailman.vpri.org > http://mailman.vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc_mailman.vpri.org _______________________________________________ Fonc mailing list Fonc@mailman.vpri.org http://mailman.vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc_mailman.vpri.org
