[lbo-talk] Speaking of intelligence....

[Tayssir John Gabbour]

On Nov 24, 2007 12:43 AM, joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> A friend sent this. Very interesting.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/technology/circuits/04pogue.html?pagewanted=1

This has many techies salivating:

    "There are also three programming environments of different

    degrees of sophistication. Incredibly, one keystroke reveals the

    underlying code of almost any XO program or any Web page. Students

    can not only study how their favorite programs have been written,

    but even experiment by making changes. (If they make a mess of

    things, they can restore the original.)"

This has a long tradition, actually. The "Lisp" and "Smalltalk" worlds
had this long ago, but Windows and Unix won in the market.

They went with Python, which was also used for letting gamers program
Civ 4. Something for the techies:
http://dlweinreb.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/xo-the-next-lisp-machine/

Tayssir