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I'm trying to find/design a very minimal language that would be the fun basis for a toy sandboxed app platform.
Lisp seems like a natural starting point, so I began with McCarthy's 9 prim operators on sexprs + number primitives.
However...
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60. To model human thought in a computable way you need to solve the problem in 59, you move closer to this goal if you give each "fact" or "edge" in the graph a unique identifier.
Long history of this in Associative Databases
Example in @RoamResearch
roamresearch.com/#/v8/help/page
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Addendum:
Forgot two things:
- I'm definitely also going to have some form of macros
- Inspirations from outside of the lisp/scheme family would also be welcome, anything with tiny semantics that's powerful enough to support a UI framework
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...does anyone have suggestions on what I should do, or pointers to good reading materials on this topic?
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...this feels extremely stark. Maybe it would work, but it will be like coding Elm (though without types) and so things like random Id generation are going to be really painful.
On the upper bound I know I could use r7rs minimal Scheme, but that seems like too much...
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(I understand things best by working from the data model side as well as the use case side, so if you can recommend something that focuses on the data model that would be especially great)
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Wikidata's goal is not to replace other knowledge bases. Wikidata's goal is to provide the connecting tissue between the many knowledge bases out there. To provide a common set of entities. To turn the individual knowledge bases into a large interconnected Web of knowledge. 36/
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Over the next few months, the first few Wikipedias were able to access the sitelinks from Wikidata, and started deleting the sitelinks from their Wikipedias. This lead to a removal of more than 240 million lines of wikitext across the Wikipedias. 23/
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Ergonomics of the Symbolics Lisp Machine - Reflections on Developer Productivity lispm.de/symbolics-lisp
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UPDATE 📝
100r published the talk as a blog post: 100r.co/site/weatherin
Made it to front pages here: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=342196
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Does anyone know refs to work on this problem? I recall there was a bunch of work in the 00's on Model Transformations. Thanks
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Request for related work: We can generate a boilerplate UI from a database schema. Then we can customize that generated UI by editing it. But we lose the ability to re-generate the UI when the database changes. Unless we could map those changes into the customizations. (cont.)
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"Simple enough to continue evolving instead of becoming legacy software" --from youtube.com/watch?v=_NB2_Q #cuis
Smalltalk has a remarkable method named #become: that allows you to modify all pointers to a given object to point to a different object!
gbracha.blogspot.com/2009/07/miracl
This goes even further than updating instances when a class changes, it's changing instance references.
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Description of Model-View-Controller by its inventor. Actually makes sense, compared to every other description of it out there.
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p92 A *halo*, specifically a *halo of construction handles* around a yellow ellipse.
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Electrical: electrons flow really fast, almost instantly. This is a good match for interactive live programming.
Hydraulic: fluid flows pretty slowly, but pressure changes propagate almost instantly. This is a good match for interactive debugging.
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p92 The text instructs you to middle-click which you can't do on mac, but you can command-click instead.
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p90 The definition of *Morph*:
> Therefore every object you see in Cuis-Smalltalk is a Morph or is composed of Morphs. Basically, a Morph is an object with state and behavior that can also depict itself on a computer display screen.
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oh snap (this screenshot of a running system, not of the book)
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p22 the System Browser
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1/11 If you are building a tool, think about making it a unified read/write app–or as Alan Kay said it, an application allowing "symmetric authoring and consuming".
What are symmetrical applications? Let's look at at 2 classic examples + something new + 1 historical miss 👇
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you inhabit the little world created for you to think inside of and work with their rules and mechanics and materials
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building good abstractions and languages and interfaces is a form of world building
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*The Cuis-Smalltalk book* readthrough thread.
URL: github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk
Published: 2020
Authors: Hilaire Fernandes with Ken Dickey & Juan Vuletich
#cuis #book
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