Owen,
John Cage the great 20th century composer used exactly this methodology
in creating his chance music and in collaboration with others. Also,
isn't following the protocols the way most scientific experiments are
done?
O
Owen Densmore wrote:
The other day, I mentioned reading that Google had settled on 4
languages for work inside the company. It occurred to me to look up
the article. Here it is:
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rhino-on-rails.html
They use C++, Java, Python, and JavaScript.
Here's the quote:
One of the (hundreds of) cool things about working for Google is
that they let teams experiment, as long as it's done within certain
broad and well-defined boundaries. One of the fences in this big
playground is your choice of programming language. You have to play
inside the fence defined by C++, Java, Python, and JavaScript.
It's sorta an interesting article. It's about how one sophisticated
engineer worked within these constraints to build a ruby on rails
environment using rhino, the java based javascript implementation.
One reason we care about this is that the Google Ecology is becoming a
pretty interesting one for us (redfish and the complex).
-- Owen
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