Re: [fonc] The Web Will Die When OOP Dies

2012-06-16 Thread Randy MacDonald
@BGB, if the braces around the letters defers execution, as my memories of Perl confirm, this is perfect. With APL, quoting an expression accomplishes the same end: '1+1' On another note, I agree with the thesis that OO is just message passing: aResult ← someParameters 'messageName'

Re: [fonc] Historical lessons to escape the current sorry state of personal computing?

2012-07-16 Thread Randy MacDonald
On 7/15/2012 2:48 PM, Tomasz Rola wrote: Not really. Install Python, run interpreter and in black window type: print Hello worldEnter and you are done. Or, install Racket, run it and in the interpreter subwindow type (display Hello world)Enter and you are done again. Even better, Racket

Re: [fonc] New Bret Victor demos

2013-06-01 Thread Randy Macdonald
What about this: the first link points to a video. At 11:35 of that video, a verbal and algebraic version of a problem are given. My feeling is that they are subtly different, in that the algebraic version allows for 169 as a solution. Actually, the fact that the verbal statement actually