"Pragma" is not too bad.
But I think external data streams to external non-Squeak systems should be called a "Dogma" (Greek: "law"). So when updating them by sending meassages is not automatic it is because the others systems are "dogmatic". :^)
Cheers, Darius
-----Original Message----- From: Mankovsky, Sheine [mailto:sheine.mankovsky2@tdsb.on.ca] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 08:38 AM To: 'Alan Kay'; John Voiklis; squeakland@squeakland.org Subject: RE: [Squeakland] A somewhat silly suggestion for Andreas
I embarrass myself in public regularly. I thought you all had noticed. Sheine
-----Original Message----- From: Alan Kay [SMTP:Alan.Kay@squeakland.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 10:36 AM To: John Voiklis; squeakland@squeakland.org 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
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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