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

2011-07-24 Thread Marcel Weiher
Hi Alan, as usual, it was inspiring talking to your colleagues and hearing you speak at Potsdam. I think I finally got the Model-T image, which resonated with my fondness for Objective-C: a language that a 17 year old with no experience with compilers or runtimes can implement and that manage

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

2011-07-25 Thread Marcel Weiher
-Lee). However, this approach will need to be adopted by most of the > already existing multiple browsers before it can really be used in a > practical way in the world of personal computing -- and there are signs that > there is not a lot of agreement or understanding why this would be a

[fonc] Sussman on InfoQ: We Really Don't Know How To Compute!

2011-11-08 Thread Marcel Weiher
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-To-Compute ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc

Re: [fonc] Apple and hardware (was: Error trying to compile COLA)

2012-03-15 Thread Marcel Weiher
On Mar 14, 2012, at 17:17 , Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote: > Alan Kay wrote on Wed, 14 Mar 2012 05:53:21 -0700 (PDT) >> No matter what Apple says, the reasons clearly stem from strategies and >> tactics >> of economic exclusion. >> So I agree with Max that the iPad at present is really the anti-Dyn

Re: [fonc] Apple and hardware (was: Error trying to compile COLA)

2012-03-16 Thread Marcel Weiher
On Mar 16, 2012, at 0:03 , Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote: > Marcel Weiher wrote on Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:33:07 +0100 >> I have a little Postscript interpreter/scratchpad in the AppStore >> (TouchScript, >> http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/touchscript/id398914579?mt=8 ). Admi

[fonc] Halide: Decoupling algorithm from scheduling for image processing

2012-10-26 Thread Marcel Weiher
Looks like an interesting approach: http://people.csail.mit.edu/jrk/halide12/ The presentation was impressive, especially for a performance + expressiveness geek like myself. Marcel ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/

Re: [fonc] How to do 'Perform' better than Smalltalk

2007-07-30 Thread Marcel Weiher
On Jul 21, 2007, at 12:42 AM, Marcus Denker wrote: > What Ted suggests is to use a special "selector name" object (or an > object encodig > Selector + Arguments) instead of symbols for #perform and then search > *the complete system* for this on "senders of". This them will catch > Selectors