cross_wiber

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by cross_wiber 6y ago
This sounds very similar to my perspective, which is that most applications try to provide a nice user experience in order to assist in doing something: creating a document, communicating with friends, reading the news, etc. With a game,
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by cross_wiber 7y ago
That's a good point. It explains why you can very often unintentionally end up with an O(n^2) algorithm in the first place, and Dawson's law then explains why no one bothers to fix it until it's too late.
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by cross_wiber 7y ago
I believe this language is based on the "chemical programming" model as described in http://pop-art.inrialpes.fr/~fradet/PDFs/RULE04.pdf and https://www.researchgate.net/publication/
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by cross_wiber 7y ago
The earliest one I know of is in the Emerald programming language. There is a brief description of the technique in http://www.emeraldprogramminglanguage.org/OOPSLA-86-paper.pd... from 1986. See http://citeseerx.
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by cross_wiber 8y ago
Emerald objects can move from one node to another. So, for example, if an object on machine X wants to perform computation using data on some remote machine Y, the object can move to Y and have (fast, local) access to Y's data, then mo
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by cross_wiber 8y ago
Most of the comments seem to be about the page design, for a page that was probably created in the 90s. Nevertheless, Emerald the language is pretty fascinating, and way ahead of its time (it was developed in the mid to late 80s). They had
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by cross_wiber 9y ago
(Disclaimer: I play jazz saxophone...) I think part of the reason classical saxophone is reviled is because the "correct" tone for saxophones in a classical setting is kind of bad (with apologies to my old saxophone professor). In
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by cross_wiber 9y ago
No. The MADCAP programming language included indentation for conditionals and for-loops at least by 1961 (see, for example, the chapter on MADCAP II in Annual Review in Automatic Computing Volume 2 ).