Re: [fonc] Kernel & Maru

2013-03-25 Thread Dirk Pranke
In response to a long-dormant thread ... Fisher's thesis seems to have surfaced on the web: http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/anon/usr/ftp/usr0/ftp/scan/CMU-CS-70-fisher.pdf -- Dirk On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Monty Zukowski wrote: > If anyone finds an electronic copy of Fisher'

Re: [fonc] Kernel & Maru

2013-03-25 Thread Dirk Pranke
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Dirk Pranke wrote: > In response to a long-dormant thread ... Fisher's thesis seems to have > surfaced on the web: > (hopefully I did not just violate some form of copyright ...) -- Dirk ___ fonc mai

Re: [fonc] Kernel & Maru

2013-03-26 Thread Dirk Pranke
n. > > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Alan Kay wrote: > >> That's it -- a real classic! >> >> Cheers, >> >> Alan >> >> -- >> *From:* Dirk Pranke >> *To:* Fundamentals of New Computing ; >

Re: [fonc] Deoptimization as fallback

2013-07-30 Thread Dirk Pranke
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Casey Ransberger wrote: > 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, wh

Re: [fonc] Deoptimization as fallback

2013-07-30 Thread Dirk Pranke
, isn't so different from what I'm asking about at all. > > Good point. You know, if I didn't have you folks around, I might start > thinking that my ideas were original:) > > > On Jul 30, 2013, at 5:58 PM, Dirk Pranke wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013

Re: [fonc] On inventing the computing microscope/telescope for the dynamic semantic web

2010-10-08 Thread Dirk Pranke
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:28 AM, John Zabroski wrote: > JavaScript also doesn't support true delegation, as in the Actors Model of > computation. > > Also, Sencha Ext Designer is an abomination.  It is a fundamental > misunderstanding of the Web and how to glue together chunks of text via > "hyper

Re: [fonc] On inventing the computing microscope/telescope for the dynamic semantic web

2010-10-08 Thread Dirk Pranke
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Paul D. Fernhout wrote: > It's totally stupid to use JavaScript as a VM for "world peace" since it > would be a lot better if every web page ran in its own well-designed VM and > you could create content that just compiled to the VM, and the VMs had some > sensible

Re: [fonc] On inventing the computing microscope/telescope for the dynamic semantic web

2010-10-09 Thread Dirk Pranke
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Paul D. Fernhout wrote: > Yes, there are similarities, you are right. I'm not familiar in detail > because I have not used Chrome or looked at the code, but to my > understanding Chrome does each tab as a separate process. And typically (not > being an expert on Ch

Re: [fonc] On inventing the computing microscope/telescope for the dynamic semantic web

2010-10-09 Thread Dirk Pranke
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Paul D. Fernhout wrote: > On 10/9/10 3:45 PM, Dirk Pranke wrote: >> >> C++ is a significant security concern; and it is reasonable to want a >> browser written in a memory-safe language. >> >> Unfortunately, web browsers ar

Re: [fonc] On inventing the computing microscope/telescope for the dynamic semantic web

2010-10-09 Thread Dirk Pranke
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 9:21 PM, John Zabroski wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Dirk Pranke wrote: >> >> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Paul D. Fernhout >> wrote: >> > Yes, there are similarities, you are right. I'm not familiar in deta