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[Alan Sondheim]

Your idea here is fascinating - within a program of course there are
dimensions in relation to the number of parameters, etc., but at least for
me it's still pretty much self-contained and certainly 'boxed' - this goes
easily for oop which centers around object-oriented circulations, and of
course for more traditional non-oop programming, there are flow diagrams
etc. which are either hierarchical or holarchical.

An absolutely flat program would be of interest - has anyone used a hash
of commands for example that infiltrates and acts on itself?

This would be self-programming programming, but it would continue as a
virtual _mess_ I think, which would be extremely interesting -

- Alan

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, human being wrote:

>
>   hi Alan. curious if you are familiar with databases
>   and use them in your work. for instance, have you
>   used a database for writing and exporting a macro
>   as a written text, or is this through programming in
>   a shell program (if that is what is it called). it is also
>   wondered if programming has a dimensionality as
>   might relational databases, if they considered as a
>   system of multi-linear connections versus a more
>   linear output. in any case, any thought appreciated.
>   the idea of using databases for mapping ideas and
>   using imagery in a database with web-output is of
>   interest as a way to communicate without hierarchy.
>   brian
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