Once I modified a commercial Smalltalk so that senders showed all
methods which referenced the symbol with the same name. It was fairly
trivial to do, though I forget the details of how; it's been so long.
Rather than specifically to get at performs, I did this because I had
set up an approach of
The PataPata project (by me) attempted to bring some ideas for Squeak and
Self to Python about five years ago. A post mortem critique on it from four
years ago:
PataPata critique: the good, the bad, the ugly
http://patapata.sourceforge.net/critique.html
I am wondering if there is some
On 10/8/10 1:51 PM, Waldemar Kornewald wrote:
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Paul D. Fernhout
pdfernh...@kurtz-fernhout.com wrote:
The PataPata project (by me) attempted to bring some ideas for Squeak and
Self to Python about five years ago. A post mortem critique on it from four
years ago
On 10/8/10 3:51 PM, Michael FIG wrote:
So, in short, I think we need exactly one level of abstraction above
the Semantic Web in order to make a true end run in the convergence
game. Legacy systems of all sorts need to be described and preserved,
not rewritten and rearchitected in a
On 10/10/10 2:25 AM, Dirk Pranke wrote:
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Paul D. Fernhout
pdfernh...@kurtz-fernhout.com wrote:
On 10/9/10 3:45 PM, Dirk Pranke wrote:
C++ is a significant security concern; and it is reasonable to want a
browser written in a memory-safe language.
Unfortunately
On 10/9/10 8:44 PM, John Zabroski wrote:
From experience, most people don't want to
discuss this because they're happy with Good Enough and scared of testing
something better. They are always male, probably 40'ish, probably have a
wife and two kids. We're on two different planets, so I
On 10/15/10 11:52 AM, John Zabroski wrote:
If you want great Design Principles for the Web, read (a) M.A. Padlipsky's
book The Elements of Networking Style [2] (b) Radia Perlman's book
Interconnections [3] (c) Roy Fielding's Ph.d. Thesis [4]
While not exactly about the web, I just saw this
Some people here might find of interest my comments on the situation in
the title, posted in this comment here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3346421cid=42430475
After citing Alan Kay's OOPSLA 1997 The Computer Revolution Has Not
Happened Yet speech, the key point I made there is:
Yet, I
On 12/31/12 2:32 AM, BGB wrote:
in this case, I think Torvalds was right, however, he could have handled
it a little more gracefully.
code breaking changes are generally something to be avoided wherever
possible, which seems to be the main issue here.
While many people posting in the slashdot
On 12/31/12 1:39 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
Of course, there is rarely the time or incentive structure to do any of
this. Productive programmers are the ones that get results and are fast
at fixing (and creating) bugs. In critical systems, at least, that's
the wrong incentive structure. In
On 12/31/12 6:36 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
2. The programmer has a belief or preference that the code is easier to
work with if it isn't abstracted.
It's all right in front of them in the context they want it. Perhaps
they are copying the code from foreign modules they don't maintain and
On 1/1/13 3:43 AM, BGB wrote:
here is mostly that this still allows for type-tags in the
references, but would likely involve a partial switch to the use of
64-bit tagged references within some core parts of the VM (as a partial
switch away from magic pointers). I am currently leaning towards
On 1/1/13 4:29 PM, Loup Vaillant-David wrote:
On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 03:02:09PM -0600, BGB wrote:
it is a question maybe of whether the programmer sees the forest or
the trees.
these sorts of things may well have an impact on the types of code a
person writes, and what sorts of things the
Alan-
Thomas Watson of IBM said:
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/multimedia/think_trans.html
And we must study through reading, listening, discussing, observing and
thinking. We must not neglect any one of those ways of study. The
trouble with most of us is that we fall down on the latter --
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