Subject:      Re: Web Neurons
From:         apuleius@ix.netcom.com (William Grosso)
Date:         1996/05/26
Message-Id:   <4oabd5$i4e@dfw-ixnews7.ix.netcom.com>
References:   <4nraca$c25@power2.powernet.co.uk> <4o0kp0$nlm@news.aloha.com> 
              <4oa55o$bch@power2.powernet.co.uk>
Organization: Netcom
X-Netcom-Date: Sun May 26  2:28:37 PM CDT 1996
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In <4oa55o$bch@power2.powernet.co.uk> 
John Middlemas writes: 

>
>jordy@aloha.com (Jordy) wrote:
>
>But not the FIRE tag which is the cornerstone of the Web neuron idea
>and involves a fundamental change in view as to how programming should
>be done.
>

Well, no. Not really. At least, I don't quite get how "FIRE"
involves a fundamental change etcetera.

In OO programming, one frequently adopts the intentional stance
towards other people's objects. Indeed, this is one of the 
big wins in OO-- you can easily explain code to other people
by saying "This object wants to do this" or "That object's
not happy anymore." They use this anthropological model of 
your object, without ever paying attention to the inner 
workings. 

When you combine this with indirection schemes like 
publish/subscribe (which is a standard enough practice to 
be in the CORBA spec), you get something that smells a lot
like a much more flexible version of your "fire."

>Thanks for replying. HTMLSCRIPT is definitely worth a 
>look (a bit expensive though).

Could somebody mail me the reference ? That article never
showed up here. 


Cheers,

Andy