Re: Kenny, did you write this article?!? (Cells)



bradb wrote:
Tin Gherdanarra wrote:

What does the article have to do with cells?

The model described is Steele's multi-way constraints paradigm. Cells are the trivial one-way special case of that.



Nothing explicitly, just that when I read the article I was immediately
reminded of Cells. They use a lot of the same underlying terminology,
even the term Cell.

I see the Adobe Adam folks use "cell" as well. I was leaning towards cell because of the spread*** metaphor, and then found it again when i looked back at Steele's thesis on constraints, decided it was a "go". And as I have said before, the guy's stuff sounds a lot like Steele's thesis where Steele originated the wired circuit metaphor. Forget how ge got from that to cell, but then i am a big fan of mixed metaphors, so no reason using two needs to be justified.

kt

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