I alway think of something clever to say after I send a message...
How about calling a Tweak object an "Idea" and call programming "Thinking."
...Clever but not self-evidently appropriate.
-J -----Original Message----- From: Mitchell, David [CC] [mailto:David.Mitchell@mail.sprint.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 9:49 AM To: Alan Kay; John Voiklis; squeakland@squeakland.org Subject: RE: [Squeakland] A somewhat silly suggestion for Andreas
Could we call it Idealistic Programming?
--David Mitchell -----Original Message----- From: Alan Kay [mailto:Alan.Kay@squeakland.org] Sent: Tue 8/19/2003 9:36 AM To: John Voiklis; squeakland@squeakland.org Cc: Subject: Re: [Squeakland] A somewhat silly suggestion for Andreas
Why not call a Tweak object an "Idea"? This would be even more Greek, and more appropriate.
Cheers,
Alan
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At 1:36 PM -0400 8/18/03, John Voiklis wrote:
This came to me during mile five (the idea mile) of a recent long jog; so, take it with a grain of salt.
Given that objects in Tweak will be neither Morphs nor traditional objects, I wonder if Andreas would consider calling a Tweak object a "Pragma" (a thing, for the Greekless); that way the computer scientists, educators, and epistemologists among us could develop a theory of "Pragmatic Programming," while avoiding confusion with the various kinds of object-orientedness found in Smalltalk and other languages.
I have not fully thought this out yet, but the idea struck me as fertile enough to risk embarrassing myself by making it public.
Best,
John
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