anup_dargar@ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:

Hi Anup:

I am a sustainable architect generating architectural design within the context of an urban ecosystem. Architecture is above all art. Curiously\ computer scientists are recognizing more and more that a software has an artistic nature too. What does this mean essentially?

This means that the structure of art has the structure of a play. So there should be a specular relation (a mirror relation) between the domain model and the computational model. Hence protoype based languages (pure object oriented languages, not orbiting around the class concept) grant this condition. Hence their superiority over class based languages. Moreover prototype based languages can mimic class based languages perfectly well (see Self includes: Smalltalk by Mario Wolczko, sorry my postscript file is corrupted and so you have to email Mario to ask him kindly to e-mail this interesting paper to you!!). If you want to have a glimpse of my knowledge based system, I invite you to access my home pages http://www.lsi.usp.br/~lourenci and read the paper about The hermeneutic nature of an ecodesign model and Self, aprototype based language. A discussion was held among the PhDOO students at ECOOP'97 held in Finland. If you want to download this discussion you should e-mail to eernst@daimi.aau.dk or look for the Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Workshop Reader from ECOOP'97 where this discussion was published.

Right now I am developing research about hermeneutic computer science.

So it emphasizes the importance of prototype based languages within the context of artificial intelligence.

If you have more questions, and I can be of help feel free to e-mail me.

Yours,

Albertina read

Hi,

I am intrested in knowing the application of self language and also of kevo. can anybody help me. Also what benefits it has over other ool using class inheritance related to the application.

Thanks

Looking for an early reply. Anup Dargar Anup_Dargar@ndsu.nodak.edu

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