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Dear ToonTalkers, I am very pleased to announce that the US English version of ToonTalk 3, the first major product release in 6 years is finally available in ...
Ken Kahn
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Sep 9, 2007
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According to a poll at http://unspun.amazon.com/Best-Programming-Language-Ever/list/show/1539 ToonTalk is number 28. Higher than Visual Basic. Best, -ken ...
Ken Kahn
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Oct 10, 2007
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Shouldn't be useful an export in Flash (.swf) format in addition to Java applet, or would it be better a migration on the Dynamic Language Runtime of the .NET...
Andrea Garbagnoli
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May 22, 2008
7:15 pm
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Hi all. Andrea has a good point about whether Java applets are still the best format for publishing one's ToonTalk creation to non-ToonTalk users. The decision...
Ken Kahn
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May 22, 2008
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Background: The Janus language (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/97946.97955) preceeded ToonTalk. Janus' constructs resembling birds and nests in ToonTalk were...
Jack
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Jun 27, 2008
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In designing how the birds and nests in ToonTalk should behave I was strongly influenced by Janus and Linear Janus ( ...
Ken Kahn
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Jun 29, 2008
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... Janus also supported bag channels natively, didn't it? In any event, what I wanted to ask about was the way the syntax made sure you couldn't copy a...
Jack
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Jul 2, 2008
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With the shift nowadays to LMSs and presenting knowledge on cyberclasses, ToonTalk can play major role in the construction of learning objects. ToonTalk gives...
omshamed
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Jan 4, 2009
7:27 pm
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I think it's more restriced than ToonTalk, shoud be only for games. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/kodu/default.aspx...
Andrea Garbagnoli
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Jan 10, 2009
5:28 pm
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Hi, Actually, I'm quite keen on trying this out. While it is very interesting that programming techniques show up on consoles, it's a pity that things like...
Leonel Morgado
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Jan 10, 2009
7:43 pm
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Hi. Thanks for bringing this up. I'm glad to see they are finally releasing it. I first heard about it almost 2 years ago: ...
Ken Kahn
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Jan 11, 2009
8:53 am
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Recursive (self calling) training of a robot to compute n!=n(n-1)! sounds natural enough using a self copy of the robot!! Implementing such approach does not...
omshamed
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Jan 19, 2009
3:17 pm
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Hi, There are other ways to express recursion. Self-copy is perhaps the most "clean-cut" one, from a CS viewpoint, but there are other ways. It would help if...
Leonel Morgado
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Jan 19, 2009
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Hi. In older versions of ToonTalk the only way to express recursion were #1 and #2 that Leonel's described. The idea that a robot could copy itself was a more...
Ken Kahn
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Jan 19, 2009
4:13 pm
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Dear ToonTalkers, I've decided after over 10 years of selling ToonTalk to give it away. I would rather see children enjoying ToonTalk than continuing to run it...
Ken Kahn
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May 13, 2009
9:21 pm
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Hi Ken ... That's very generous, and pretty exciting news. Do you know how this will affect licensing arrangements in other countries? I'd like to use ToonTalk...
Chris Randle
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May 14, 2009
12:27 am
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Hi Ken, Great news! Please do share the source code! It may be complex, but it will help theoretical discussions on how some programs should (or do) work. And...
Leonel Morgado
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May 14, 2009
6:19 am
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I second that! Free Marty - on googlecode! who knows what will happen? You can always maintain control over official releases. great news Ken, and just when I...
Yishay Mor
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May 14, 2009
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Regarding ToonTalk in the UK (and Portugal) I received this email from a Logotron official: Following the fire at the Logotron warehouse in August 2007,...
Ken Kahn
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May 14, 2009
6:47 am
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" Regarding the CNOTINFOR Distribution Agreement for ToonTalk – CNOTINFOR had exclusive rights to translate and sell ToonTalk 2 (which they wished to call ...
Leonel Morgado
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May 14, 2009
7:01 am
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Yes, a new translation of ToonTalk 3 would be owned by the translator to do as they please (but hopefully contribute to the community). Best, -ken 2009/5/14...
Ken Kahn
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May 14, 2009
7:44 am
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... That's great Ken, thanks for the quick reply. And thanks for releasing Marty the Martian to an unsuspecting group of excited children! -- Chris Randle...
Chris Randle
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May 14, 2009
6:58 pm
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Ken, You are a gentleman and a scholar and a wizard ... thank you on behalf of the whole world; I hope we can somehow manage to take advantage of this...
Balzano, Gerald
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May 15, 2009
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Dear ToonTalkers, I uploaded the ToonTalk source files to Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/toontalk/source/browse/ While I spent some effort deleting...
Ken Kahn
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Jul 30, 2009
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Hi Ken, Congratulation on yet another great stride! Inté, Leonel ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Leonel Morgado
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Jul 30, 2009
8:56 am
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here here!! ___________________________ Yishay Mor, Researcher, London Knowledge Lab http://www.lkl.ac.uk/people/mor.html ...
Yishay Mor
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Jul 30, 2009
8:59 am
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i a actually new in ths group. i relay want to make friends and get to know how animations are made. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
sylvestr jesse
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Aug 26, 2009
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Hi Sylvester, OK! Welcome! Can you let us know one thing you'd like to do? Inté, Leonel ... From: ToonTalk@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ToonTalk@yahoogroups.com]...
Leonel Morgado
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Aug 26, 2009
11:20 am
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Hi, Sylvester, ToonTalk allows you to program using animations – it is focused on allowing you to program a game, for instance, using animation for that...
Leonel Morgado
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Aug 26, 2009
12:13 pm
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I added ToonTalk on this page: http://wiki.k12opensource.com/Programming and also pointed out it to Don Box...
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