Ted Nelson on What Modern Programmers Can Learn from the Past (2018)

Post by setr » Sun, Aug 21, 2022, 11:59 PM UTC

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From: > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu Wired magazine published an article called "The Curse of Xanadu", calling Project Xanadu "the longest-running vaporware story in the history of the computer industry".[3] The first attempt at implementation began in 1960, but it was not until 1998 that an incomplete implementation was released. Ouch!

Under the international hypertext accords of 2010, anytime the wired article is referenced, the rebuttal must be referenced also: https://web.archive.org/web/20001003011753/http://xanadu.com...

Post by CRConrad » Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 8:04 AM UTC

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I'm aware of the Scheme chips. I chose machine language because it doesn't need many names for code, and thus was suitable as a starting point for my work on textless programming. I've not reached out to John Cowan but think I might, despite my dislike of Unicode. I'll also look into this Ronin Institute. I'll keep the book in mind. I appreciate the help. As I explain in the last linked article, a lot of these artifi…

Thank you for a civil, intelligent conversation. I had never thought about the "asymmetry" of putting control codes with the character codes in ASCII--it does seem illogical now that you point it out. :) Languages like Ido aren't completely "artificial", and I certainly think Couturat didn't fail in some sense--my irrational issue with Ido, despite its numerous strengths, is that words with the same part of speech en…