Either is my brain is running on low gear or the post I'm replying to (Bruce Parens, #99) is automatically generated babble. Could it be an attempt to discredit Bruce Perens (with an "e"), the person behind technocrat.net? Anyway, to respond to the meta-meaning of this garbage, cheap and easy biotech is not something that I forsee bubbling down to the garage/hacker level in the coming years. Comparing writing computer code to writing genetic code is like comparing doing math exercises to cooking over the phone in a dark kitchen without knowing what ingredients you have.
This talk of HTML programming reminds me of the bright light who suggested, in response to a "rewrite the browser in Java" thread on the mozilla.general newsgroup, that it would be better to rewrite the browser in XML...
For an interesting and clear explanation of what the technology actually does, see: http://www.byte.com/nntp/joncon?comment_id=1701 (In case you followed the link to comments rather than to Scripting News).
With all the attempts we're seeing to make the web an interactive, BBS-like medium (Slashdot, Web-DAV, ThirdVoice/Gooey/...), I think this technology is definately worth looking into.
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Either is my brain is running on low gear or the post I'm replying to (Bruce Parens, #99) is automatically generated babble. Could it be an attempt to discredit Bruce Perens (with an "e"), the person behind technocrat.net? Anyway, to respond to the meta-meaning of this garbage, cheap and easy biotech is not something that I forsee bubbling down to the garage/hacker level in the coming years. Comparing writing computer code to writing genetic code is like comparing doing math exercises to cooking over the phone in a dark kitchen without knowing what ingredients you have.
Going to China makes perfect sense for the man who invented the GPL. After all,RMS' most famous creation embodies the idea that Freedom is a Virus...
This talk of HTML programming reminds me
of the bright light who suggested, in response to a "rewrite the browser in Java" thread on the mozilla.general newsgroup, that it would be
better to rewrite the browser in XML...
For an interesting and clear explanation of what the technology actually does, see:
http://www.byte.com/nntp/joncon?comment_id=1701
(In case you followed the link to comments rather than to Scripting News).
With all the attempts we're seeing to make the web an interactive, BBS-like medium (Slashdot, Web-DAV, ThirdVoice/Gooey/...), I think this technology is definately worth looking into.