I like that joke!  :-)

On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Kent Tenney <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wow, I feel like the Rabbi in the following joke:
>
> You are talking way above my head, I'll study this thread and
> try to come up with something to contribute. In the mean time, enjoy.
>
> http://www.awordinyoureye.com/jokes83rdset.html
>
> (#1705) The Pope and the Rabbi [Author unknown] Several centuries ago, the 
> Pope
> decreed that all the Jews had to convert or leave Italy. There was a huge 
> outcry
> from the Jewish community, so the Pope offered a deal. He would have a 
> religious
> debate with the leader of the Jewish community. If the Jews won, they could 
> stay
> in Italy, if the Pope won, they would have to leave.  The Jewish people met 
> and
> picked an aged but wise Rabbi Moshe, to represent them in the debate. However,
> as Moshe spoke no Italian and the Pope spoke no Yiddish, they all agreed that 
> it
> would be a "silent" debate.  On the chosen day, the Pope and Rabbi Moshe sat
> opposite each other for a full minute before the Pope raised his hand and 
> showed
> three fingers. Rabbi Moshe looked back and raised one finger.  Next the Pope
> waved his finger around his head. Rabbi Moshe pointed to the ground where he
> sat. The Pope then brought out a communion wafer and a chalice of wine. Rabbi
> Moshe pulled out an apple. With that, the Pope stood up and declared that he 
> was
> beaten, that Rabbi Moshe was too clever and that the Jews could stay.  Later,
> the Cardinals met with the Pope, asking what had happened. The Pope said, 
> "First
> I held up three fingers to represent the Trinity. He responded by holding up 
> one
> finger to remind me that there is still only one God common to both our 
> beliefs.
> Then, I waved my finger to show him that God was all around us. He responded 
> by
> pointing to the ground to show that God was also right here with us. I pulled
> out the wine and wafer to show that God absolves us of all our sins. He pulled
> out an apple to remind me of the original sin. He had me beaten and I could 
> not
> continue." Meanwhile the Jewish community were gathered around Rabbi Moshe. 
> "How
> did you win the debate?" they asked.  "I haven't a clue," said Moshe. "First 
> he
> said to me that we had three days to get out of Italy, so I said to him, ‘up
> yours!’ Then he tells me that the whole country would be cleared of Jews and I
> said to him, we're staying right here." "And then what," asked a woman.  "Who
> knows?" said Moshe, "He took out his lunch so I took out mine."
>
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Seth Johnson <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Kent Tenney <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Seth Johnson <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Okay, I think I have a sense of where you're situated.  What do those 5 key
>>>> components of the address represent?
>>>
>>> They are a set of child indexes 0-5-0-0-1
>>
>>
>> Are you actually doing state transition management with persistent objects
>> like what Eoin pointed to re Rich Hickey?  Hickey stores the "diffs" between
>> instances of unique "values" under one "identity" (his special way of 
>> thinking
>> of variables/data structures) over time, as tree chains like this, holding
>> just the part of the structure that has changed.  This lets him treat 
>> "values"
>> as "the whole structure at a moment of time," which is a useful concept in a
>> concurrent execution environment, rather than using traditional data
>> structures whose individual pieces of data could be changed independently by
>> different processes.  Rather than copying the whole structure, he virtualizes
>> distinct value instances by pointing at "diff" chains like yours for the part
>> that has changed, plus a pointer to the rest of the original structure that
>> hasn't changed.
>>
>> In any case, key chains like you use could be stored like any other tree in 
>> my
>> architecture.  That could become an implementation of unique values under
>> identity a la Hickey, I guess.
>>
>> I made my system open to diverse blocking approaches -- I'm trying to
>> remember, but mostly all I recall clearly is that you request "occasions" 
>> from
>> the authoritative host servers of the state in which you're working -- and I
>> didn't design it as a way to hold outlines as snapshots in time, as part of 
>> an
>> approach to concurrent execution in a particular way like Hickey does.  (My
>> focus tends to be more on generality than "containment.")
>>
>> Seth
>>
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