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by jefffoster 18y ago
Squeak ( http://www.squeak.org/ ) is fun. It's designed for teaching, has lots of high level libraries available and it's simple (everything is in one system). This isn't going to do much to help with Unix/Linux mind, but as someone else p
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by jefffoster 18y ago
On reflection you're right, we can do better! I deleted the post, apologies if that is "bad-form", but in my opinion better to undo the mistake than let more cruft accrue!
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Spreadsheet-style Programming with Lisp(common-lisp.net)
6 points by jefffoster 18y ago|1 comments
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by jefffoster 18y ago
On the contrary, spreadsheets are a cool model of computation. They're live - you can update the value of any variable (cell) and all the other references update automatically. It's a dataflow model. See, for example, the Cells project at
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Google Search finds missing girl(news.bbc.co.uk)
3 points by jefffoster 18y ago|0 comments
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by jefffoster 18y ago
> Most OO languages are based on no theory That's just not true. "A Theory of Objects" is a good introduction. See http://lucacardelli.name/TheoryOfObjects.html
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by jefffoster 18y ago
How does a programming language teach at all? Well, it doesn't alone however the concepts that are available in a programming language constrain your thought process. Java/Pascal is much more constraining than something like Oz/Scheme.
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by jefffoster 18y ago
It's kind of depressing that he felt the need to rebrand just because it wasn't commanding respect. Getting a good demonstration (rather than fibonacci!) would go a long way to getting Subtext noticed!
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Entrepreneurial Learning Talks in Cambridge [UK] (cfel.jbs.cam.ac.uk)
1 points by jefffoster 18y ago|0 comments
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10 Interesting MS Research Projects(networkworld.com)
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by jefffoster 18y ago
Don't you just plug in the audio and a big speaker system? You could choose the engine to imitate and make any noise you want. (sure I've read that in an article somewhere, though can't find the link!)
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by jefffoster 18y ago
There's a good book "Purely Functional Data Structures" by Chris Okaseki that deals with these issues.
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LatencyTOP(linux.com)
1 points by jefffoster 18y ago|0 comments
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Cascading(cascading.org)
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by jefffoster 18y ago
I worked on an IDE that only allow refactoring - the demos at least were nice, even if ultimately it didn't go anywhere! http://dynamicaspects.org/domain-j/demo.asp