Comments on: Darwin Among the Prototypes http://squeak.funkencode.com/2008/02/10/darwin-among-the-prototypes/ Community and Code for Squeak Smalltalkers Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:24:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Laurence http://squeak.funkencode.com/2008/02/10/darwin-among-the-prototypes/#comment-281 Laurence Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:43:53 +0000 http://squeak.funkencode.com/2008/02/10/darwin-among-the-prototypes/#comment-281 @Randal - you're right, I knew about it - our buddy Dan was big on it but I had a Sony MagicCap and never played with the Newton @Alan - true if one takes a very broad view of machines as transformers of energy. From that perspective all organic things and many larger inorganic(oceans, planets, stars etc.) bodies are clearly machines as well. Even <a href="http://croquet.funkencode.com/2006/08/04/the-virtual-is-real-just-follow-the-money-or-the-physics/" rel="nofollow">bits, being made up of the same real physical stuff as humans</a>, are machines - science and religion may have more in common than either likes to admit :-) In any case I'm all for expanding the narrower, industrial-era view of machines as long as we <a href="http://www.meshverse.com/2008/01/31/humans-in-the-loop/" rel="nofollow">keep strictly biological humans in the loop</a> @Randal - you’re right, I knew about it - our buddy Dan was big on it but I had a Sony MagicCap and never played with the Newton

@Alan - true if one takes a very broad view of machines as transformers of energy. From that perspective all organic things and many larger inorganic(oceans, planets, stars etc.) bodies are clearly machines as well. Even bits, being made up of the same real physical stuff as humans, are machines - science and religion may have more in common than either likes to admit :-) In any case I’m all for expanding the narrower, industrial-era view of machines as long as we keep strictly biological humans in the loop

]]> By: Alan Lovejoy http://squeak.funkencode.com/2008/02/10/darwin-among-the-prototypes/#comment-279 Alan Lovejoy Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:57:31 +0000 http://squeak.funkencode.com/2008/02/10/darwin-among-the-prototypes/#comment-279 People are machines, too! People are machines, too!

]]> By: Randal L. Schwartz http://squeak.funkencode.com/2008/02/10/darwin-among-the-prototypes/#comment-271 Randal L. Schwartz Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:33:34 +0000 http://squeak.funkencode.com/2008/02/10/darwin-among-the-prototypes/#comment-271 You missed one of the more interesting applications of prototypes: the Newtonscript programming language for the Apple Newton! You missed one of the more interesting applications of prototypes: the Newtonscript programming language for the Apple Newton!

]]> By: Javascript - Still Object-Oriented :: Darwin Among the Prototypes http://squeak.funkencode.com/2008/02/10/darwin-among-the-prototypes/#comment-270 Javascript - Still Object-Oriented :: Darwin Among the Prototypes Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:06:15 +0000 http://squeak.funkencode.com/2008/02/10/darwin-among-the-prototypes/#comment-270 [...] my interest in prototypes that I found Javascript appealing! The name of this entry is taken from a post on my Squeak blog that traces my history of exploring prototype-based programming. One thing that most of these [...] […] my interest in prototypes that I found Javascript appealing! The name of this entry is taken from a post on my Squeak blog that traces my history of exploring prototype-based programming. One thing that most of these […]

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