Re: Message passing syntax for objects | OOPv2

From	Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Message passing syntax for objects \| OOPv2
Date	2013-05-12 13:02 +1200
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Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 5:32 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber
> <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>>        The coordinates of each particle storing the information in that
>>teaspoon of matter.
> 
> Which is probably more data than any of us will keyboard in a
> lifetime. Hence my point.

My 1TB hard disk *already* contains more information than
I could keyboard in my lifetime.

The fact that it all got there is due to two things: (1)
I didn't have to enter it all myself, and (2) most of it
was auto-generated from other information, using compilers
and other such tools.

Our disk capacities are increasing exponentially, but
so is the rate at which we have the ability to create
information. I wouldn't be surprised if, at some point
before the human race becomes extinct, we build
computers whose operating system requires more than
a teaspoonful of atoms to store. Especially if
Microsoft still exists by then. :-)

-- 
Greg

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Re: Message passing syntax for objects | OOPv2 Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2013-05-09 14:51 -0700
  Re: Message passing syntax for objects | OOPv2 alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-05-09 16:58 -0700
    Re: Message passing syntax for objects | OOPv2 Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2013-05-09 20:08 -0700
    Re: Message passing syntax for objects | OOPv2 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-10 13:07 +1000
      Re: Message passing syntax for objects | OOPv2 alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-05-11 15:23 -0700
    Re: Message passing syntax for objects | OOPv2 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-10 14:33 +1000
      Re: Message passing syntax for objects | OOPv2 Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-05-10 00:55 -0400
        Re: Message passing syntax for objects | OOPv2 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-10 17:37 +1000
        Re: Message passing syntax for objects | OOPv2 William Ray Wing <wrw@mac.com> - 2013-05-10 07:49 -0400
        Re: Message passing syntax for objects | OOPv2 Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-05-10 08:58 -0400
        Re: Message passing syntax for objects | OOPv2 Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-05-11 15:34 -0400
    Re: Message passing syntax for objects | OOPv2 Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-05-11 15:32 -0400
      Re: Message passing syntax for objects | OOPv2 Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2013-05-12 12:50 +1200
        Re: Message passing syntax for objects | OOPv2 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-12 11:10 +1000
    Re: Message passing syntax for objects | OOPv2 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-12 08:41 +1000
      Re: Message passing syntax for objects | OOPv2 Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2013-05-12 13:02 +1200
        Re: Message passing syntax for objects | OOPv2 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-12 11:19 +1000
    Re: Message passing syntax for objects | OOPv2 Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-05-12 12:53 -0400

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