Steve Folta schrieb:
Aren't lambda's supposed to be closures, so that they can
actually access variables defined in lexical scope?
Unlike most other Lisps, lambdas in Jolt are *not* closures. Jolt's
big insight is that a closureless Lisp makes a great portable
assembly language (better than
Dear List,
as a lurker on this list, and generally interested in the topic at hand,
I am asking myself lately what are the next plans regarding idst. I am
interested in seeing this project progress!
Those who have worked extensively with idst I am asking whether it
wouldn't be easier to directly
Dear List,
as a lurker on this list, and generally interested in the topic at hand,
I am asking myself lately what are the next plans regarding idst. I am
interested in seeing this project progress!
Those who have worked extensively with idst I am asking whether it
wouldn't be easier to
Hi Alan,
just out of curiosity: I am wondering why VPRI is not aiming at a more
community oriented style of innovation. Do you think the communcation
effort is not worth the cost since you do not gain enough or even loose
some freedom and / or speed by discussing archictural concepts more
,
Alan
*From:* Jakob Praher j...@hapra.at
*To:* fonc@vpri.org
*Sent:* Sat, May 8, 2010 12:25:12 PM
*Subject:* Re: [fonc] Fonc on Mac Snow Leopard?
Hi Alan,
just out of curiosity: I am wondering why VPRI is not aiming
programs on the browser through lively?
Am 09.05.10 23:41, schrieb Jakob Praher:
Personally I was very excited about the Carl Hewitt's work on
ActorScript [1] lately. IMHO something like Lively Kernel could
provide the client infrastructure for this Client Cloud computing.
What is your opinion
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 that the web can displace proprietary,
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 that the web can displace proprietary,
On 07/25/2011 09:35 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
I did ask in that thread about exposing the CPU, a la NativeClient. (It's a
usenet group so you can post without subscribing, nice)
Short answer is that they don't see a need for it.
I somehow have mixed feelings about NaCL. I think that safe
Am 30.08.11 21:46, schrieb Jakob Praher:
Dear Eduardo,
Thanks for sharing this. There is a great overlap between Alan's and
Niklaus Wirth's sentiments.
Very inspiring and to the point. Is anybody using Oberon currently as a
working environment?
@Alan: Can you remember the discussion
-use of abstraction : complicated since hard to see where the
real stuff is going on
Maybe it also has something to do with bottom up vs top down.
Cheers.
Jakob
Cheers,
Alan
*From:* Jakob Praher j...@hapra.at
We would have to define what you mean by the term computation.
Computation is a way to transform a language syntactically by defined
rules.
The lambda calculus is a fundamental way of performing such
transformation via reduction rules (the alpha, beta, gamma rules).
In the end the beta-reduction
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
Am 04.04.13 22:53, schrieb John Carlson:
Natural languages include tenses. What computer systems have a wide
variety of tenses?
John McCarthy analyzed this in his description of Elephant 2000 [1]
sentence Algolic programs refer to the past via variables, arrays and
other data structures.
The
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