On Sat, 17 May 2008 02:57:08 -0700, castironpi wrote: > Full day later, I think it, to emphasize state, would prioritize > context. The reason for the huge ramble was, believe it or not, > namespace conflict... as though any other states around here might nose > in. And thanks to 'inhahe' for coming back with the question. ...Which > would explain next move to 'prioritize context'. Context is a high > priority for people. > > I'm proposing to start on one on a computer. The first things a > computer 'knows' are the boot, keyboard, & mouse. Yet on another scale, > the first things it knows are BIOS, file system, and OS. On still > another, the only thing it knows are interruptions. Knowledge is > important to context. (The scales are ram on disk on, ram on disk off, > and ram off, which may tell of the currency they and their power are > bought with. Thence, we should be getting different values for lengths > of time.) > > (Furthermore, we're all on different longitudes -and- latitudes.) > > Context comes from motion, perception, and composite perception > (reperception e.a.o. memory). There is some reason to believe that > motion and sight are different senses, perhaps so with stationary sound > (gatcha) and mobile sound too. Do you go deaf of a tone after prolonged > duration? That makes computers valuable commodities*: they have a > symbolic interface, which no other unlive objects have. They have both > mouse and keyboard. > > *I'm sure there is a precision to wants: what magnitude of what types of > action a person wants from a day and for a time-- what energy states > they go to and from (note phone on come to and come from.) > > Therefore, context should originate in mouse and keyboard. > > Humans have symbolic know-how: knowledge of how to convey intent > digitally, though it may be there is no interpolation of 'intent per > mouse-or-key', even though people are prone to empathize with faces. > However, if you start with a 'me' and a 'no', you can get pretty > logical. > > Intent per mouse-and-key isn't necessarily scalar, three-dimensional, or > rationally dimensional (?), though they do have magnitudes per mass and > volume. The contingent of 'rationally dimensional' is having or > beknowing/benouncing an orthonormal basis. Incidentally, '''orthography > of a language specifies the correct way of using a specific writing > system to write the language. .. Orthography is derived from Greek ὀρθός > orthós ("correct") and γράφειν gráphein ("to write").''' - wikipedia. > > Further incidentally, context and state may have more important in > common than priority and price: privacy and safety are involved ex > hypothesi. Incidentally = ... > > It is not clear that the first (cheapest best) human-computer language > is a computer language, though if two were orthonormal in comparison to > life, Python's fine. Not my first. > > In privacy concerns, it is not clear that duals aren't primitives to > humans. What's a brain primitive? Lol: what is a primitive brain? > > > > > On May 16, 10:58 am, "inhahe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm not an expert in this but what does it mean to emphasize state? It >> seems the opposite of that would be a) functional programming, and b) >> passing parameters instead of using global or relatively local >> variables. And maybe c) coroutines (generators as implemented in >> Python), although perhaps coroutines could be said to emphasize state >> inasmuch as they go out of their way to capture, objectify and reuse it >> (Stackless' microthreads, even moreso). And Python seems to be >> well-noted for implementing some functional programming methodology, >> and as for passing parameters it's just as object-oriented as the rest >> of them. >> >> But as I said, I'm not an expert, so let me know if I've gone astray.. >> >> >> >> > I have a proposition to ask you all: Python emphasizes state. Is it >> > true?- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text -
Castironpi, I love you! You remind me of all the kittens and puuppies I had when I was a child. I #define this. Hope your database could give us something funny again. -- Ivan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list