Autocoding project proposal.

[phil hunt]

On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 01:01:08 GMT, Joshua Macy <l0819m0v0smfm001 at sneakemail.com> wrote:
>
>   Since nobody can figure out what VIC is actually supposed to do, 
>that's either going to be pretty difficult, or dead easy (depending on 
>how cynical one is).
>   Can't you give even one concrete example of how you envision this 
>working?  Forget about whether you actually have all nine commands 
>working, how do you plan on having them work together to do some simple 
>task that we can understand.
>   Here's a simple python program to count the lines in a specific file:
>
>f = open("myfile.txt")
>l = f.readlines()
>print len(l), " lines"
>
>Run on itself as input it prints:
>3 lines.
>
>How would you accomplish the equivalent with VIC commands?

Here's my prediction: either Tim will not answer this, or if he does answer 
it, it will not be with an explanation of how VIC does things, but with
two things: (i) a not-particularly-illustrative metaphor, and (ii) an
implication that programmers are too stupid/elitist/brainwashed to
understand him.

Though I wouldn't mind being proved wrong.

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