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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
Background: The Janus language (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/97946.97955) preceeded ToonTalk. Janus' constructs resembling birds and nests in ToonTalk were...
... 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...
With the shift nowadays to LMSs and presenting knowledge on cyberclasses, ToonTalk can play major role in the construction of learning objects. ToonTalk gives...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
" Regarding the CNOTINFOR Distribution Agreement for ToonTalk – CNOTINFOR had exclusive rights to translate and sell ToonTalk 2 (which they wished to call ...
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...
... 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...
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...
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...
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]...
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]...
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...