Lots of concurrency

Russell Allen russell.allen at firebirdmedia.com
Mon Oct 29 15:26:30 UTC 2001


Hi,

I like the way in which the squeak mailing list attempts to merge
concepts from outside the CompSci universe into discussions - recently I
have been intrigued by what other people are saying about how they
perceive music.

For me, I can listen to music in the way which people are suggesting (as
a parallel series of notes - ie horizontally) or vertically as a
succession of sounds/chords, or I think, in whole number of other ways
less amenable to computing analogies ;).  

This, though, is just my experience.  I could, for what it is worth,
tell the list about how I perceive music, and how this changes when, for
example, I am singing a solo.  I wouldn't want to tell the list (without
some serious research) what all soloists think/experience when singing.

I have a strong suspicion that this retisence should be carried over to
other sweeping generalisations:  I know both male and female musicians
who can 'multitask' better than I can.  Whether there is a fundamental
difference in brain make-up is still undecided; and "Men are from Mars
and Women are from Venus" is hardly a groundbreaking piece of either
sociology or biology.

I am also faintly amused by the thought that I (a male) am commenting on
Justin (a male), who is quoting a book by John (a male) on the subject
of women's mentalities...

Are there any women on this list?  And if so, why not?  What good is
programming for children of all ages if half the children are
uninterested or excluded?

Russell

"Justin Walsh" <jwalsh at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> It is true John. I have my own proof but,
> John Grey the Author of the "Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus" (ex
> budist monk of 28 years I believe) describes it very well.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Hinsley" <jhinsley at telinco.co.uk>
> To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 6:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Lots of concurrency
> 
> 
> > As a footnote, it would seem that women have brains which multi-task
> > much better than men's.
> >
> > Any evidence for enhanced parallelism in women, or is this just a crude
> > OS characteristic?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > John
> >
> > --
> > If you don't care about your data, like file systems which automagically
> > destroy themselves and have money to burn on 3rd party tools to keep
> > your
> > system staggering on, Microsoft (tm) have the Operating System for you.
> >
> >




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