John Hinsley wrote:

Albertina Lourenci lourenci@lsi.usp.br wrote:

John, my darling: What a sweet message!!!I am enchanted when I meet people from computer science like this!! This is the way of the musicians and artists of course!!

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(I work in pair or more always!!)

I think that's by far the best way to work. Certainly all the projects I've done that were collaborative worked out the best.

Yes yesterday I was talking on the phone with Norai, the Director of the Institute of Mathematics from the University of Brasilia. It was his birthday and yet he stayed in the evening at his home talking to me while his mobile phone kept ringing with Congratulations!!!

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I wonder whether you can imagine how extremely grateful to you I am!!!

I'm just glad to have been of help!

Then I told him about the nice bit I got through you!! He was amazed with the great ease I explained to him what X-programmming basically was. He is working with GAP a sophisticated software to deal with groups programmed in OO. Of course it can't design any geometric form. He agrees and realizes how I strive to put algebraic ideas into form. And how wise that I manage to put into software these ideas too! And here the idea of test, central to X-programming is fundamental.

He is delighted with X-programming!!!Something that a mathematician would never dream of...because they simply think in great theory and complete laws!!! This physical and artistic reasoning intertwined opens the gate to the artifact, to modelling!!He is excited with the possibility that we may consider the smooth transition of form (say to freeze the transition from fish to bird in Escher's xylographs) as a component!!! In architectural reasoning is very fundamental!!!And more meaningful!!! We're fusing two methodologies, one from Moser and the other from Schwarzenberger. Moser deals with intuitive way of transforming groups into geometric fundamental regions and the latter allows one to measure the sides of this fundamental region!!!

As always, I'm bowled over by your energy and enthusiasm. If you've any to spare, do you think you could put it in a bottle and send it to me ;-)

It is not necessary, all you have to do is to feel me through space as I can also feel you!!Just empty yourself!!!Enthusiasm waves are very easy to be felt!! They send us to the world of joyness, every act of creation is an expression of joy!!!

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Yes, I am surprised that I managed to read all code written in Smalltalk and Squeak!!Is it Self's influence?

I'm not sure. But I think that the Squeak folk and the Self folk are on a very similar wavelength in wanting to create something which was both powerful and easy to use. Of course, the Morphic you see in Squeak is a port of Morphic in Self, and there may be more Self stuff coming over to Squeak.

Happy Squeaking and may the Morph be with you!

I am as pure and minimalist as Self!!! I want only Self, SElf/R and a family of good SElves!!! Or better of course!!! Have a fun-filled exciting weekend! Albertina

Cheers

John

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