[Fonc] Frank, running it

[Casey Ransberger]

Kids,

We're mostly missing the point. It was a science experiment. Most of the code is in plain view, and I mean it might be fun to figure it all out and make it run. But the point was to see if we could use our language skills to cut down the giant mess of personal computing. Things that fit on T-shirts and in my limited thoughts.

But the gift here isn't *code* or a running system. It's this fantastic pile of research papers that we don't even have to claw our way through a paywall to access.

--Casey

[Loup Vaillant David]

Is there an upvote button somewhere?

On the one hand, it is probably about damn time we apply those ideas in
some "$$ Real World $$" setting.  On the other hand, that's definitely
an engineer's job.

I have the feeling most of the complexity of current systems come from
the acceptance that they have to be that complex.  Frank, showed this
acceptance is misplaced.  This knowledge might give us the drive
required to actually simplify our stuff.

There might not be any silver bullet, but there's definitely enough
silver dust to forge a couple such bullets.  Let's forge them!  (I
swear I'm doing it myself¹, but I only have so much spare time.)

[1]: http://loup-vaillant.fr/tutorials/earley-parsing/

Loup.

Post by Casey Ransberger
Kids,
We're mostly missing the point. It was a science experiment. Most of
the code is in plain view, and I mean it might be fun to figure it
all out and make it run. But the point was to see if we could use our
language skills to cut down the giant mess of personal computing.
Things that fit on T-shirts and in my limited thoughts. 
But the gift here isn't *code* or a running system. It's this
fantastic pile of research papers that we don't even have to claw our
way through a paywall to access.
--Casey
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