Ciao Tobias You floored me on that. :-)
I will reply. A bit later. Best wishes Josiah On Tuesday, 15 November 2016 20:27:38 UTC+1, Tobias Beer wrote: > > Hi Josiah, > > I get the feeling there's mostly a philosophical point you'e trying to > make but reading the wikipedia article on Quine I would say TiddlyWiki sure > ain't one. > > I'm also not sure why you think the notion would be particularly useful > for TiddlyWiki beginners. In what sense? > > Yes, TiddlyWiki does not (try to) produce a linear output or experience. > However, "procedural" does not mean that. The state of a system depends on > it's input-output relations, so even a "procedural" bit of code may behave > in nonlinear ways, hence all the more reason to consider approaching things > models more from an object oriented angle, rather than a mere procedural > unfolding of commands against plain digits. > > You said: //Its open-endedness is a signal marker of "Quineness".// > > Where does it say that open-endedness makes for a quine? As far as I can > see it's sole purpose is to, well, render it's very own source and that's > it. > > In general, I think the era when we thought of software as purely strict, > logical, "deterministic" is long gone. Perhaps people would imagine > assembler language to represent that kind of thinking, tic toc makes the > clock, but even there you can get to some quite non-deterministic states at > the intersection of hard- and software. > > Best wishes, > > Tobias. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/f2741d06-9c20-47eb-b61b-ee6a0acaa194%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
