Autocoding evolves from........

[Terry Reedy]

"Timothy Rue" <threeseas at earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:4314.793T504T6883966threeseas at earthlink.net...
>
> I'm going to try to explain this tool I've been on about in a mnner
of
> evolution, or start here, add this and why, and then expand that for
more
> power and control....
>
>
> Start here: We exist (one item)
>
> We consume and we produce in this existance (two items - input and
output)
>
> we can expand on this an break it into three items.
>
> input -> processing -> output
>
> I can go to the lumber yard and buy some wood and supplys (consume)
and
> take the stuff I bought and make some things with it (process) and
then I
> can sell it or give these things I've made away (output).
>
> Simple enough!
>
> In a Unixy shell that can be done simply by entering a command
(process)
> on the imput of the command line and getting output to the screen.
>
> I input and got output.
>
> Using redirection, I input from the lumberstore and process thru my
shop
> and output to the yard sale.
>
> %> shop <lumberstore >yardsale
>
> Simple enough.
>
> Only it's not that easy to do in real life.
>
> Sure I can go to the lumber store and sum it up that I got input
from teh
> store. But as someone else said, the devil is in the details.
>
> Exactly where all do I get input from (once I get in the store)?
>
> I don't just and walk in then out with what all I need. I have to
get wood
> from a rack, nails from a shelf, Glue from another shelf, and paint
from
> off another shelf in another part of the store.
>
> That's alot more different inputs than just getting input from the
store.
>
>
> THIS is just to show the need to be able to change input direction.
>
> So... (changeable input direction) -> processing -> output
>
> That is a difference that gives us more control over the input and
> changing it as needed, to where it is needed.
>
> Still all the stuff input from the store gets taken to the shop.
There is
> no need to get just one item and take it to the shop, and repeating
it
> until all items are in teh shop.
>
> What that means is that:
>
> %> shop <lumberstore >yardsale
>
> ...well it doesn't really work that way in real life so why expect
someone
> to do it that way on a computer?!
>
> As the input stage can be shown to need greater flexability, so can
the
> output stage be shown the need for it to be more flexable too.
>
> (changeable input direction) ->processing-> (changeable output
direction)
>
> Ok, so WHILE PROCESSING IS GOING ON we can change the input and
output
> directions as needed.
>
> This is why the VIC has such ability designed into it.
>
> And in the same way of stepping thru what you do in real life,
everything
> designed into the VIC is done so for the reason of providing such
> versatility so that when it is needed, it is there to use.
>
> Fortunately, in dealing with computers, we don't have to use the
> versatility any where near the amount that we actually use it in
real
> life. But we still do use it and having the versatility available is
> better than not.
>
> For example, in going into the lumber store I have to IDentify the
wood
> and nails and checkout counter, etc... before I know whether or not
I need
> them. But in a computer, I might just be able to take alot of short
cuts,
> like telling the computer to get me everything on my shopping list.
Where
> it would be much quicker at going thru the store inventory list,
then my
> doing it manually walking thru the store.
>
>
> Unfortunately while writting this I've been called back to work. But
I hope
> I have given some insight into what the VIC is and why it is
designed the
> way it is. Perhaps I'll be able to follow up in showing the basic
idea
> of each of the other commands and the why behind expanding on them
for
> more control and versatility. And of course the integration of all
of
> them into a configuration that provides the senergy we experience in
reall
> life in working as a team.
>
> There is no magic formula to autocoding or other such seemingly
complex
> things like AI illusions (which is what the turning test is, a test
of
> illusion). What there is, is just the automating of things in a
manner
> consistant with the way we do things in real life.
>
>
>
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