It might be, but it might also mean that God invented (or Darwin if you
prefer) two legs so that the triathlon could follow the marathon, if for no
other reason than for our amusement- more probably to counter insecurities
of humans with something left to be done. I can think of quite a few things
in computing that are far more stupid than a participating in a marathon,
like having to ask permission of the competition to exist. Running long
distances seems brilliant in comparison.
AK makes some good points in that speech, however, if you look passed the
oop-la, particularly with respect to systems design. I came to some similar
conclusions apparently about the same time period- '97 or so- that a
holistic design would be necessary.
Ironically, I have in the past year started to question whether Sem Web is
pink? It doesn't seem to have some of the characteristics that would
reflect blue, particularly since it must be written over pink so stretched
that the pigment is barely discernable, and is constantly threatening to
tear, whether it appears to work or not. .02-MM
----- Original Message -----
From: "russell standish" <r.stand...@unsw.edu.au>
To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" <friam@redfish.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Distributed Agents and Alan Kay's UniversalInterface
Language
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 01:32:01PM -0600, Roger Critchlow wrote:
"I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have
C++
in mind".
-- rec --
Is that a bit like?:
"If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more
stupid, the triathlon must have taken Him completely by surprise."
P. Z. Pearce
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