OK, SourceForge has approved the Cells project.
The first upload there will be Cells Release 2 to avoid any confusion
with Semaphors Release 1.
I had planned a quick second Semaphors 2, but the whacky examples I was
cooking up for the tutorial doc exposed some Deep Flaws and some
vestigial code, so I actually ended up revising the internals for a
week. Some fun stuff, too.
Speaking of which, anyone who has seen the first distro and has been
poking around the source, I made zero effort to clean that up before
releasing it, so god knows what you may find in there, including
vestigial code. The analogy with the genome is apt, if I understand
correctly that there are significant stretches that are inoperative but
still lying around.
I plan to add a few more bits to the doc, fire up Grep to change from
semaphors to cells, then release Cells 2.
If no interest has developed by then, I plan to do some new doc with a
more accessible approach; the doc so far is almost an internals intro.
OTOH, if the doc as is does attract interest, the next step will be a
more advanced tutorial following the development in small steps of a
CLOS class browser.
kenny
clinisys
Sorry to post so late--I meant to follow up when I saw this but forgot...
> releasing it, so god knows what you may find in there, including
> vestigial code. The analogy with the genome is apt, if I understand
> correctly that there are significant stretches that are inoperative but
> still lying around.
This is what they told us in schools, yes, but (in case you care to know)
"They" have since realized that those "meaningless, inoperative stretches"
are as critical as the rest. The non-protein "junk dna" actually codes
meta-info about the proteins, like where to start, where to stop, how to
splice this gene's data into A to make protein X and how to splice it into B
when making protein Y, etc.
So don't try and patent "metadata" because I've got a million examples of
prior art stashed in my foot :)
--
Robert Braddock