This video reminds me of those great stories about kids at PARC... They are
using Scratch to teach children how to use their Dynabooks :)
>From the teachers (Alan has obviously developed a mind control device):
"We'd like the outcome of Code Club to be a whole generation that
understands... how
On Dec 1, 2011, at 2:11 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
> many of us will be there and happy to show whatever we've got (by that
> time, hehe).
Fantastic! I look forward to it.
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Will you notify the list when VPRI presentations are scheduled? For example, is
anyone planning on presenting at C5 2012?
It would effect my conference selection through the year because STEPS seems
like the most important work in software right now.
Sean
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On Nov 12, 2011, at 7:38 PM, Kim Rose wrote:
> Come join us for C5-2012 - January 18-20, 2012 in Playa Del Rey, California
Is anybody from VPRI presenting?
By coincidence, I'm going to be in California the weekend before, so I should
be there.
Sean
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On Nov 7, 2011, at 6:08 PM, karl ramberg wrote:
> http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf
It's so exciting to watch the project come along. I can't wait to eventually
play with it!
With every annual report, I think what a shame it is that there are so many
talks given about it (~20 this y
Alan,
I'm thinking more deeply about computers and language and have realized that,
after programming for 15 years, I still have no idea what I'm talking about :)
After reading many of the LISP suggestions (thanks), the primary features seem
to me to be:
parsimony (again you got to me and I final
On Aug 17, 2011, at 9:41 PM, Alan Kay wrote:
> Take a look at Landin's papers and especially ISWIM ("The next 700
> programming languages")
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On Aug 18, 2011, at 1:15 PM, Alan Kay wrote:
> One way to try to think about "the idea of Lisp" and the larger interesting
> issues, is to read "the Advice Taker" paper by John McCarthy (ca. 56-58
> "Programs With Common Sense")
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/mcc59.pdf_
Alan,
While we're on the subject, you finally got to me and I started learning LISP,
but I'm finding an entire world, rather than a cohesive language or philosophy
(Scheme - which itself has many variants, Common LISP, etc). What would you
recommend to "get it" in the way that changes your thin
//www.dolphinharbor.org/docs/PIE%2520four%2520reports.pdf&pli=1
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>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:18 PM, DeNigris Sean wrote:
>>> "Extending object oriented programming in Smalltalk" by Goldstein and Bobrow
>>
>
> There is a paper on PIE (and many ot
Does anyone have a copy of "Extending object oriented programming in Smalltalk"
by Goldstein and Bobrow, which Alan talks about in "The Early History of
Smalltalk"?
Thanks.
Sean
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Bert, that link was to a 2 minute clip of Alan receiving an award.
Sean
On Jul 22, 2011, at 8:03 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> Recording:
>
> http://tele-task.de/archive/lecture/overview/5820/
>
> - Bert -
>
> On 22.07.2011, at 06:29, Alan Kay wrote:
>
>> To All,
>>
>> This wound up b
On May 15, 2010, at 8:25 PM, Ted Kaehler wrote:
> I have released a live system that contains the active essay Text Field
> Spec for LObjects. The active essay tells about a compact way to specify
> word wrap of text and a reasonably complete text editor.
This is super-cool and definitely
> We don't plan to wind up using any one else's GC so I wouldn't worry.
Not worried - just excited to play with this stuff!
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> the Boehm/Weiser GC as included in the sources does not compile on Snow
> Leopard - this is not a COLA problem.
So no future for mac users then ;-). Bummer...
There is a MacPort of gc7.1 that I successfully installed. Is there any way to
use that?
I tried various sneaky things, including:
Suggestion:
For the Idst/COLA links on http://www.vpri.org/vp_wiki/index.php/Main_Page:
* remove the http://piumarta.com/software/cola/ link, which provides
instructions for the trunk.
* use the http://vpri.org/fonc_wiki/index.php/Installation_Guide which mentions
the stable version first, and al
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