John's Emails	Re: Your ideas and my thoughts
Your ideas and my thoughts		Re: Your ideas and my thoughts
To: rap@maths.soton.ac.uk Hi Rubber Bucanner, >I like the idea of webneurons. It does seem eminently sensible to use >something with the behaviour which you describe in web pages etc. However, >I do wonder whether it will be as versatile as, say, Java. To be so would >require a significant increase in the number of commands in HTML. Maybe, but we are looking to cover things like looping, by linking webneurons rather than in a script, so this simplifies things immediately. Please see:- http://brain.eu.org/weblet.htm In fact we will try to keep the script inside a webneuron very small and use the way webneurons are linked to control logic flow. The system is a complete programming language so should be able to do anything Java can (I hope). As you say though we will still have to add a lot more commands. >My final thoughts, however, are positive. I like variety and choice, and I >can see no harm in having two (or more) media for web pages. All that is >required is a browser that can understand all the standards, no great >problem. I think that neural networking is an important idea and so should be >promoted, but object-oriented design and programming is important too. There >is room for both. The problem we have is do we write a new browser, try and get Netscape to change theirs, or even do we write a new OS. Thanks for your encouragement.