Re: Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle

2012-02-26 Thread d...@axiom-developer.org
Actually, I guess this is the driving force behind my "activism" about "literate programming". What we do now is a "social wrong" in the sense that we are creating software that could be so much better, in an engineering sense, than we do now. We create software but we lose the most valuable part

Alan Kay talk

2012-04-24 Thread d...@axiom-developer.org
Alan Kay gave a very interesting talk which I think the Clojure community might find enlightening. Specifically, near the end he talks about building a DSL by careful domain analysis. http://tele-task.de/archive/video/flash/14029 In relation to Clojure, are there lessons to learn from the Meta lan

Re: Alan Kay talk

2012-04-25 Thread d...@axiom-developer.org
On Apr 24, 11:33 pm, Kai wrote: > The implications of Kay's talk are potent; and when one considers that his > team at VPRI have mostly fulfilled their vision to reduce the tens/hundreds > of millions of lines of code needed for personal computing down to under > 20,000 lines (includes OS, netwo