Community and Artifact Define One Another (Was: SqFpurpose:supporting the Squeak community?)

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at disney.com
Tue May 29 17:36:45 UTC 2001


Duane --

Nicely phrased!

Cheers,

Alan

------

At 10:12 PM -0700 5/28/01, Duane Maxwell wrote:
>Fernando Soteras said:
>>  On page 62 of his book "Against method" Feyerabend confuses Boltzman's
>>  formula (that gives the denity of the probability of a dynamic system
>being
>>  in equilibrium) with  a non-relationable-by-substitution  theorem of
>>  statistical mechanics(equipartition pple).
>>   The previous bug extracted from a nice  refutation of Lakatos
>>  & Feyerabend historicist
>>  divagations on Mario Bunge's "Seudoscience and Ideology"
>
>...which tells me that if this is what it takes to get someone to delurk on
>this list, we have some serious issues.  All it used to take is some kind of
>positive statement about Java or Python or something.
>
>--- Duane





More information about the Squeak-dev mailing list