Erlang (was: Re: Generics)

Hans Nikolaus Beck HNBeck at t-online.de
Mon Nov 10 19:04:39 UTC 2003


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Hi

Am 10.11.2003 um 18:48 schrieb Alan Kay:

> Hi Hans --
>
> What are biological cells?

ahhh, the  standard example ;-)

I think if our objects used in computers represents a cell such that 
the property "beeing a process" is hold, we would have done a big 
evolutionary step in computer science and perhaps true KI ;-)))))

At a biolocical cell, the typical beeing is lost if time is stopped and 
one look at the cell. We found her a certain molecule, there some 
others, but the live is broken, the cell is dead and we can not get any 
deep knowledge about what the cell *really* is (the problem of 
genetics: one found a static DNA and thought ohh yes, we know how life 
works....)

If we stopp the time at computer, we found a set of states given as a 
collection of data. They would be the same as long as wie hold the 
time. If we know the data at one time and methods ( the finite set of 
transition rules) of a object, we can explain whow the object works for 
all times. We don't need to see it in time to understand the function.

Hmmm. my possibilities the express my ideas in english is very limited, 
so I apologize if this sounds  silly or boring or what ever to you.

Perhaps a last try: I think our "objects" in computer sciences are to 
bad models of reals objects to be allowed to seen as a process. Just an 
idea and just my own theory of objects, build from hearing a little bit 
here and seeing a little bit there. But I will think more about it the 
be able to express my ideas much more clean, even in english ;-))


Greetings

Hans
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