It's a menace to society. They're promoting it to teachers. They say it's modern, but it wouldn't have been modern in 1960. There seems to be no first-class...
Hi all. I just downloaded the software and was disappointed. I agree with Leonel and Jack that the language is a minor variant of old languages. They did build...
Hi all. Yesterday I gave a talk at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University that they recorded. The abstract and video of the talk is at ...
Since Janus is an ancestor of ToonTalk and there doesn't seem to be a general forum on concurrent constraint languages, I hope it's OK to ask about Janus here....
Hi all. Jack asks about Janus which was a language I worked on before ToonTalk. ToonTalk borrows many ideas from Janus. ... Janus was frequently redesigned but...
... So if you copied it, you still had the original as well as a copy? How does the syntax distinguish between the original and a copy? And if you copy a box...
I'm trying out ToonTalk and am working through the "Pzzle Game" that comes with the trial version. I'm stuck trying to make a row of zeros in boxes such that...
Hi. Marty's advice on this puzzle is confusing and misleading -- thanks for pointing this out. Marty currently says: "Did you vacuum out the 7 and the 7 zeros...
Dear ToonTalkers, Beta 50 is now available. Download details at http://www.toontalk.com/English/download.htm. Send me email for the password. Enjoy. Best, -ken...
Hi, I am facing a problem that Jack has mentioned previously in this list, if I recall correctly. I would appreciate any solutions for this problem, or...
Solution 1: Make the iterator robot require an empty nest. Once the nest is covered with the "stop" message, the iterator robot passes control on to the...
Hi, Thanks, Jack! Meanwhile, I tested the approach I had ventured earlier, using a box-reorganization within the team instead of changing its number of holes -...
Here's a third solution. Have a hole that contains a "status" indicator, Play or Stop. The first robots in the team require the nest to be empty. The first...
Hi, Great solution! It seems extremely simple, clean and "obvious" (once someone comes up with it). It provides an explicit way to achieve what was being done...
Hi everyone (and Happy New Year!) This third solution is in a style pioneered in the Playground Project -- http://www.ioe.ac.uk/playground I, too, like it. To...
Greetings -- I just wrote a draft of a paper about ToonTalk and time travel for a conference on software visualization. Comments most welcome. Especially if I...
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Dear ToonTalkers - I want to publicly congratulate Leonel Morgado for successfully defending his thesis on Monday. As part of his thesis work he worked with...
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... Regarding the second issue, this was a design decision that I now think was wrong. Very early in the ToonTalk design I thought that since it is well-known...
Hi all. ... ToonTalk does maintain internal version numbers for robots so that incompatible changes don't break old robots. Scales could be enhanced in a...
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Wine is a Windows-API compatibility adaptor for POSIX-compliant operating systems. The report is at http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=3722 . I am...
Hi all. Regarding trying ToonTalk 2 (2.36 or 2.39 depending on which country) on Wine, you might try directly running the setup.exe in the install directory on...
Suppose: - A robot has a picture in a hole in its box. - The picture is not flipped to its back. - The robot is not going to flip the picture. - The robot does...
Hi Jack, Regarding the first question: The robot can drop other items on top of that picture, which have two different ways to cause effects: 1 - Those items...
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