Re: [fonc] Program representation

2010-05-10 Thread Mayson Lancaster
> > Cheers, > > Alan > > -- > *From:* BGB > *To:* Fundamentals of New Computing > *Sent:* Mon, May 10, 2010 5:50:31 PM > > *Subject:* Re: [fonc] Program representation > > > > - Original Message - > *From:* John Nilsson > *To:* Fundamen

Re: [fonc] Program representation

2010-05-10 Thread Alan Kay
: [fonc] Program representation - Original Message - >From: John Nilsson >To: Fundamentals of New Computing >Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 3:33 PM >Subject: Re: [fonc] Program > representation > > > >On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:29 PM, BGB >wrote: >

Re: [fonc] Program representation

2010-05-10 Thread BGB
- Original Message - From: John Nilsson To: Fundamentals of New Computing Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 3:33 PM Subject: Re: [fonc] Program representation On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:29 PM, BGB wrote: like having documentation in a hypertext form, and having code

Re: [fonc] Program representation

2010-05-10 Thread John Nilsson
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:29 PM, BGB wrote: > > like having documentation in a hypertext form, and having code contain > links into the docs, and from the docs back into the code?... > For example. > I guess it would be a notable improvement on having to edit external files > for the documents,

Re: [fonc] Program representation

2010-05-10 Thread John Nilsson
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:55 PM, John Zabroski wrote: > Can you provide an end-to-end exemplary situation in Enterprise Resource > Planning (ERP) software where FONC ideas are relevant? You sort of jumped > off that stream of thought and onto modeling sine waves graphically, etc. > Depends on wh

Re: [fonc] Program representation

2010-05-10 Thread BGB
--- From: John Nilsson To: Fundamentals of New Computing Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 11:22 AM Subject: Re: [fonc] Program representation On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:54 PM, John Zabroski wrote: Schematic tables are a separate issue entirely. First of all. Thanks for the

Re: [fonc] Program representation

2010-05-10 Thread John Zabroski
Can you provide an end-to-end exemplary situation in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software where FONC ideas are relevant? You sort of jumped off that stream of thought and onto modeling sine waves graphically, etc. I work in various roles of ERP/CRM/BI software, and so I understand the doma

Re: [fonc] Program representation

2010-05-10 Thread John Nilsson
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:54 PM, John Zabroski wrote: > > Schematic tables are a separate issue entirely. > First of all. Thanks for the explanation about the thinking wrt the TCP/IP implementation. I'll have to peruse the code with that in mind. My questions was, as you pointed out, about a sepa

Re: [fonc] Program representation

2010-05-10 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
On 2010/05/10, at 18:21 , John Nilsson wrote: > When reading about the TCP/IP implementation in OMeta it strikes me that parsing the > ASCII-art is still text. Isn't it kind of silly to spend all that syntax on representing > something as fundamental as a table? ASCII-art is not so bad. I

Re: [fonc] Program representation

2010-05-10 Thread John Zabroski
The ASCII-art is not what is important. The table is effectively loaded directly from its source. In this way, an RFC document server negotiates with the client seeking to build a TCP/IP stack. The client queries the server and starts negotiating on the data interchange format for passing to the

[fonc] Program representation

2010-05-10 Thread John Nilsson
Hi, When reading about the TCP/IP implementation in OMeta it strikes me that parsing the ASCII-art is still text. Isn't it kind of silly to spend all that syntax on representing something as fundamental as a table? So I was wondering, have you, at vpri, been contemplating alternative program repr