Jack Leibowitz wrote:
Steve,
I understand your point. I do think we need to make a distinction
between technological efforts and fundamental research into basic
mysteries of the physical world. The desire to shed light on the
latter is , in itself, a humanizing experience, in the same spirit
Hmm..I think there's a simpler question that I would like to ask:
What language could I write a script in (no graphics, simply text in,
text out) that would run on all the computers used by Friam folks?
I guess the most likely answer is none just use the browser and
build a trivial
What language could I write a script in (no graphics, simply text in, text
out) that would run on all the computers used by Friam folks?
Javascript!
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On Dec 27, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
What language could I write a script in (no graphics, simply text
in, text out) that would run on all the computers used by Friam
folks?
Javascript!
Well, it is certainly lurking on all of our systems that have a
browser, that's
JavaScript sure seems like a simple solution. Here's a primitive version of
one possibility.
html
head
script
function transform(input) {
output.value = transformed version of:\n + input;
}
/script
/head
body
Copy the text to be translated into this text area and press Go. br /
textarea id =
I *like* it! Probably the most universal, and can even be run
locally. Possibly even as a bookmarklet. And luckily for all of us,
the DOM standards let javascript access user input in a fairly elegant
way.
BUT: the pipe paradigm of unix shells allows you to have the input be
a file
Before sending that script I looked for a way for JavaScript to access the
local file system. I couldn't find one. Sorry. But that doesn't mean there
isn't one.
-- Russ
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
I *like* it! Probably the most universal, and can
How about listing some of the true open questions, you know, what's missing
from the view of science?That would be a kind of scientific use of art.
So many of the 'portals' between mental universes seem to be through their
respective dark matter.
Phil Henshaw
An interesting feature of this thread is that at first I thought you were
after the best scripting language or something like that. When I finally
understood that what you wanted really was the most widely accessible
scripting language, the question took on a completely different meaning. It
Owen Densmore wrote:
BUT: the pipe paradigm of unix shells allows you to have the input be
a file and the output to be piped into a file or another program.
The browser can be used as a hierarchical blackboard (the DOM) between a
producer and a consumer while JavaScript 1.7's `yield' can switch
There is still the issue of Javascript implementation portability. You
can't count on each vendor adhering to standards. If you are lucky, the
code that you want to implement will run on all browsers. Worst case, you
will have to sniff the OS browser and branch accordingly. It is a lot
more
Russ, Marcus: Thanks for yet another push for me hussle javascript a
bit more.
This is a good reminder as to why javascript is so cool:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/A_re-introduction_to_JavaScript
I found a great book as well: Javascript, the Good Parts .. here's
video from the
Hi Jack,
I'd like to take advantage of your post to raise an issue that is
related--but not directly--to what you are discussing.
You wrote, What has made mathematics so important in science, especially
physics, is the need for replacing word-fuzziness with precision in
prediction.* *
Although
A fascinating discussion. E.O. Wilson made much the same point in his book
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, where he argued that a narrow reliance
on mathmatics had destroyed philosophy in particular, while in general an
increasing reliance on specialization and mathmatics had handicapped
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