Re:Programming Languages are PC OSs circa 1986
by raganwald on Sunday September 21, 2008 @11:40PM
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I think comparisons and metaphors can shed light and reveal common principles of tools/tasks (without defining them)
Oh absolutely. We are pattern-matching machines. If we had to reason about every new thing from first principles because of the exceptions and corner cases that mean no two things are exactly alike...
Well let's just say we would need a whole brain architecture. The one we have--highly parallel with relatively slow procesors and six layers of neocortex--wouldn't cut it.
Oh absolutely. We are pattern-matching machines. If we had to reason about every new thing from first principles because of the exceptions and corner cases that mean no two things are exactly alike...
Well let's just say we would need a whole brain architecture. The one we have--highly parallel with relatively slow procesors and six layers of neocortex--wouldn't cut it.