[cells-devel] Real-World Cells...

Kenny Tilton kennytilton at optonline.net
Sun Aug 3 11:34:41 UTC 2008


Ever wonder what real-world Cells looks like?

     http://www.theoryyalgebra.com/

...only for Windows at this point, but based on Cello which runs 
everywhere so just a matter or priorities. As the page says, intro guide 
inside zip.

Learned quite a few Deep Lessons when I got lazy and went "procedural" 
with a lot of SETFing in observers. Maybe not lazy, we never want to be 
slave to a paradigm. Anyway, I sure climbed that learning curve and it 
is a funny one when one tries to do a few SETFs (to other Cells) in an 
observer. Doable in the end and predictable and understandable once one 
knows The Way(tm), but till then... ugh.

I might also see Cells/4 from where I am standing. It would start by 
making the Procedural Cells (Procells?) easier, and unrelatedly solve a 
referential integrity problem I keep running into, where the instance 
owning a Cell I am using gets not-to-be'ed but I did not learn about the 
instance (in that rule) by reading a kids slot so I have no clue that I 
am depending on a dead cell. Until I run again. :)

Anyway, right now I am just trying to stave off bankruptcy so I can keep 
doing open source (and eat) so I would be very appreciative to anyone 
who could check out the software at this early alpha stage so i can get 
to beta and start pestering non-techie math people knowing the download 
they encounter more or less works.

Just downloading and running and seeing if it works would help, btw.

Thx! kenny



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