[elephant-devel] John McCarthy's Elephant 2000

[Ian Eslick]

Actually I did notice that when I first started working with  
Elephant.  Elephant the language is an interesting concept, and  
probably way ahead of its time (my own research explores a variant on  
some of the underlying principles), but I don't think the collision  
is anything to worry about unless both Elephant's become widely  
popular (1k's to 10k's of users) which I think unlikely.  :)

Cheers,
Ian

PS - Sorry for the delay in my changes, I got sidetracked by the  
birth of two healthy girls a week earlier than originally expected.   
Anyway, should get the current changes set promoted over the next  
week.  If anyone is really gunning to help with the next release I  
can point out what needs to be done and tested and go ahead and  
commit my current change set...otherwise you'll have to wait a bit.


On Dec 10, 2006, at 3:30 AM, Red Daly wrote:

> I am wondering if you elephant developers have recognized your  
> namespace
> collision with John McCarthy's Elephant 2000 Programming Language  
> Based
> on Speech Acts :)
>
> I do not know much about it other than some anecdotal information  
> from a
> professor of mine.  He said a few years ago he saw Professor McCarthy
> making photocopies of his new Elephant 2000 manuscript.  My professor
> asked him about Elephant, and he told him "it's a new language I'm
> working on--without any parentheses.  I have written too many
> parentheses in my life, so elephant doesn't have any!"
>
> Here is a web site by McCarthy about elephant:
> http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/elephant/elephant.html
>
> Hope you enjoy!  Keep up the good work on the Elephant Object  
> Database,
> and I look forward to the next release.
>
> -red daly
>
>
>
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