This is great!
Dirk - how did you find it?
Duncan.
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 ;
> mo...@codetransform.com
> *Sent:* Monda
Here's something else by David Fisher that I found online:
http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA240565
*Title : *Languages Beyond Ada and Lisp
*Descriptive Note : *Final technical rept. 22 Sep 1988-30 Jun 1991
*Corporate Author : *INCREMENTAL SYSTEMS CORP PITTSBURGH PA
*Personal Author
It doesn't look like any of the libraries near me hold it, but here you go:
http://www.worldcat.org/title/control-structures-for-programming-languages/oclc/4335223&referer=brief_results
http://www.worldcat.org/title/control-structures-for-programming-languages/oclc/82223524&referer=brief_results
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Monty Zukowski wrote:
> If anyone finds an electronic copy of Fisher's thesis I'd love to know
> about it. My searches have been fruitless.
>
The title is not the same, but maybe these are variants of the same paper?
http://dl.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100550
Hello Alan,
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Alan Kay wrote:
> For example, one of the many current day standards that was dismissed
> immediately is the WWW (one could hardly imagine more of a mess).
>
I was talking to a friend the other day about the conversations going on in
this mailing lis
Hello Alan,
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Alan Kay wrote:
> At Apple, besides Fabrik and Playground (several versions), there was
> MacPal and Constructo
> There was (unimplemented) "the hopping curriculum" which used a visual
> syntax
> Tableau was yet another "before-after" visual producti
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:51 PM, John Zabroski wrote:
> That being said, I have no idea why people think Smalltalk-80 would have
> been uniformly better than Java. I am not saying this to be negative. In
> my view, much of the biggest mistakes with Java were requiring insane legacy
> compatibili
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Michael FIG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Yeah, that was exactly the problem I ran into with trying to provide a
> repo that was just a mirror of the files resulting from a certain
> Guilt patch queue. Its history had to change, which screwed up the
> clones.
>
While I find the discussions on programmable/changeable syntax interesting,
I think an equally important part to making this all work must be a good
module system to enforce the boundaries. Grepping through the fonc mail
archives, I don't think this has been brought up before.
What are the plans f
