Alan's scrambled sentence demo

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Sun Dec 15 13:56:12 UTC 2002


I found a changeset that looks like the demo in question. It files 
into 3.4 and seems to work just fine. Enjoy this nifty little demo by 
Ted!

Cheers,

Alan

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At 2:38 PM -0800 12/14/02, Alan Kay wrote:
>Dan and Tim --
>
>This is an archeological find of the first magnitude!
>
>This is not the version of wandering letters I show in my demo   -- 
>we still need to nudge Ted for that version -- but this is a very 
>interesting version of this idea done as an "advanced etoy" using 
>one of the alternative syntaxes.
>
>The version I use doesn't rotate the text and is quite a bit faster 
>for this and other reasons. But I'm really glad this turned up!
>
>Now, Ted, where is the standard version of this?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Alan
>
>At 11:29 AM -0700 12/14/02, Tim W. wrote:
>>Dan Ingalls wrote:
>>
>>>Alan answered Tim W's inquiry by...
>>>
>>>>What did it look like? What video?
>>>>
>>>>You might be referring to "Wandering Letters" that was done by Ted Kaehler.
>>>>
>>>
>>>... and if so, there is a project of that name on Bob's super 
>>>swiki.  It's from April 2001, so it may require an earlier Squeak 
>>>image (I'd be interested to know).
>>>
>>>	- Dan
>>>
>>>
>>Thanks Dan. WanderingLetters is in fact what I was looking for off 
>>the super swiki. I am using 3.4beta change set #5138 and everything 
>>seems to work just fine. Thanks again, Tim
>
>
>--


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