Help for Christopher Alexander in S.E. England
Stephane Ducasse
ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Fri Aug 1 09:24:00 UTC 2003
Hi richard
Another way would be for him to come at ESUG a friendly and small
conference this year organized in Slovenia (3 hours from venice:) and
meet all kind of smalltalkers and squeakers. Because there I'm sure
that in a week he could get a ***lot***, even have his simulation. This
is the last week of august in a beautiful country.
http://www.esug.org/
Else http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/WebPages/SmalltalkSqueak.html
There are columns, Squeak quick ref for my next book and all kind of
stuff.
and http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/WebPages/FreeBooks.html
for free online books
Stef
On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 08:31 PM, Richard Pawson wrote:
>
> Christopher Alexander, author of 'A Pattern Language', wants to write a
> simulation to demonstrate the ideas in his new series of books 'The
> Nature
> of Order' (the first volume is out, and truly outstanding). I have
> persuaded him that Squeak is the right language to do it in and he's
> hooked.
> Chris has not programmed for some years (though he is a mathematician,
> originally) and needs some tutorial help on the basics of the language.
>
> He'd like to find a fluent Squeaker who'd give him a few hours of
> voluntary
> time. Chris is currently living on the South coast of the UK (West
> Sussex).
> The ideal would be a grad student in Southampton or Portsmouth
> Universities.
> (Anyone know of any Squeakers there I could contact directly?) If this
> doesn't work, someone on the end of a phone would be acceptable.
>
> This is an opportunity to meet and interact with one of the world's
> greatest
> contemporary thinkers. I'm sure we can help him out. (I've offered
> my help
> on the OO design side, but I'm not a sufficiently fluent programmer to
> give
> him the basics he needs at the beginning.) Just to make it clear, he
> wants
> to write the simulation himself, this is not an attempt to get someone
> to
> write it for him.
>
> If you can help, or know any contacts who might, please get back to me
> directly and I'll put you in touch with him.
>
> Richard Pawson
>
>
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