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

2011-06-25 Thread BGB
On 6/24/2011 9:07 PM, Julian Leviston wrote: On 24/06/2011, at 11:42 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: They gave that presentation more than once (I saw it a OOPSLA). Awesome :) Here's a version from JAOO'08, streams fine in Germany:

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

2011-06-25 Thread Bob Arning
I concur. It was mildly entertaining at points, but mostly I kept hoping they would speed up the pace while slowing down the camera switching. Since some smart people recommended it, I kept plugging away. I got a bit over half way before bailing. Cheers, Bob On 6/25/11 12:07 AM, Julian

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

2011-06-25 Thread BGB
On 6/25/2011 3:27 AM, Bob Arning wrote: I concur. It was mildly entertaining at points, but mostly I kept hoping they would speed up the pace while slowing down the camera switching. Since some smart people recommended it, I kept plugging away. I got a bit over half way before bailing. I

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

2011-06-25 Thread Dale Schumacher
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 6:00 AM, BGB cr88...@gmail.com wrote: ... the more a language moves towards being practical and useful, the more it will likely tend to resemble more mainstream languages. which I suspect more work through a sort of long-term distilation/refinement process, where useful

[fonc] Eternal computing

2011-06-25 Thread Steve Wart
I've been thinking about eternal computing not so much in the context of software, but more from a cultural level. Software ultimately runs on some underlying physical computing machine, and physical machines are always changing. If you want a program to run for a long time, the software needs to

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

2011-06-25 Thread Dethe Elza
On 2011-06-25, at 3:27 AM, Bob Arning wrote: I concur. It was mildly entertaining at points, but mostly I kept hoping they would speed up the pace while slowing down the camera switching. Since some smart people recommended it, I kept plugging away. I got a bit over half way before