I want to expose Alan Kay's cynicism in the statement "you'll rule the world" with the iPad
This is actually his cynicism toward's Steve Jobs' will to power and is not well-intentioned. On Jul 30, 2013, at 3:40 PM, Alan Kay wrote: > This is how Smalltalk has always treated its primitives, etc. > > Cheers, > > Alan > > From: Casey Ransberger <casey.obrie...@gmail.com> > To: Fundamentals of New Computing <fonc@vpri.org> > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 1:22 PM > Subject: [fonc] Deoptimization as fallback > > Thought I had: when a program hits an unhandled exception, we crash, often > there's a hook to log the crash somewhere. > > I was thinking: if a system happens to be running an optimized version of > some algorithm, and hit a crash bug, what if it could fall back to the > suboptimal but conceptually simpler "Occam's explanation?" > > All other things being equal, the simple implementation is usually more > stable than the faster/less-RAM solution. > > Is anyone aware of research in this direction? > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
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