Hi everybody, In February we had a short discussion on Lisp on the pattern discussion mailing list, especially the entry barriers of Lisp because of allegedly ...
... I would rather have classified it as a post-modern language. << Common Lisp like Smalltalk *traditionally* have been available as large environments that...
Dick, that made my day. One more point is that because "Lisp is Dead" you don't have special interest groups (Sun, IBM, Oracle, etc.) actively breaking it by...
Getting this conversation back on-topic... I think Lisp is a good vehicle to get to the next thing, but we should not mistake it for the next thing. Something...
Pascal: Thanks for the intro to Lisp. Lots of good info there. Here is something I wrote to the XP list on Lisp recently that to some extent is a rehash of a...
I am organizing a workshop at OOPSLA this November to explore the question of when and how it makes sense to use the techniques of art (writing [including...
Hi. I have just uploaded the papers for this year's Feyerabend workshop @ ECOOP in the "Files" section. I hope that the authors add themselves to this mailing...
Dear shallow thinkers. We have extended the submission "deadline"; for the Feyerabend workshop that takes place at this year's ECOOP. Please see below. All...
Just sharing some views on distributed AI, and trying to get some support against using XML as a good technology to do this, - Mike AI made The Economist...
L3 is a vision for doing something cool. It is in direct contrast with traditional client-server, prescriptive, RPC-like computing, based on files, file ...
... Bob: Good points. I agree, software intelligence should depend on context. That is, in some cases we do want intelligent software in some cases we want to...
I just found this nice article about laws protecting software code: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/lessig_pr.html Some parts strongly remind me of the...
I've got one reminder and one new announcement: I am organizing two events which could be of interest to folks you know. The first is a workshop called...
This workshop: "Self-Organisation and Evolution of Social Behaviour." might be interesting to some in this list. - Mike My own thoughts on the application of...
1. In conjunction with FSE 10, there will be a "Workshop on Self-healing Software Systems." No CFP out there yet, but you may want to watch the web site: ...
Maybe you all know about this already, but I didn't. ... Bridging the Great Digital Divide The Simputer is a low cost portable alternative to PCs, by which the...
Hi, there. Here is just another paper that I am rather excited about at the moment: * J.F. Pane and B.A. Myers: "The Influence of the Psychology of Programming...
Hi. I don't know if anyone of you knows about Thomas Green, but I have just stumbled across his website and found two of his papers very interesting. They are:...
"Investigations" as Foundation for a Biological-Framing of Software ... 1. Introduction This document encloses a summary of "Investigations: The nature of...
I thought the Feyerabend group would be interested in this CFP, as well as the larger conference in which it is embedded. I'm planning on being there, and...
... The book that "At Home in the Universe" is based on ("The Origins of Order") actually gives an answer to this. It has to do with the way that networks of...
To me, "self-awareness" implies the existence of at least two levels: first a level at which the software ordinarily functions, through the application of...
... Bob: Good question. In my view, the answer is all of the above but probably less: - there is a wide range of diversity: some agents are more intelligent...
Hi, Dragos. ... I don't like the implications of this paragraph. First of all, as far as I know, it's just not true that in other disciplines, "enough time was...
... I totally agree with Joe. Especially when I read one of the proposed characteristics of autonomic systems (at http://www.research.ibm.com/autonomic/): "5....
