Author: Pete Theisen
Posted: 2013-12-23 at 07:02:34
On 12/23/2013 07:34 AM, Ted Roche wrote:
> I note with some amazement that this is my _tenth_ posting of this
Well, if you are going to do that:
Holiday Gift from Paul McNett and Ed Leafe 12/5/03
Found myself reading email yesterday AM after work, well past my
bedtime, When I saw this evocative post: "Holiday Gift from Paul McNett
and Ed Leafe". I was thinking I have to break off and get some sleep to
be at least *awake* for my afternoon appointment, but, oh, I have to
read this one . . .
It was a URL. It loaded like the wind - no graphics, all text. It was a
web app called "The Thing". A little text description was to the effect
that Paul and Ed hoped we would like this holiday gift to the community
- an online application checker/translator, along with the holiday wish
that this would help people get work done, understand all the stuff we
have to understand and maybe even make money. All thought of sleep
suddenly vanished.
There was an "input box" labeled "paste your code or text here", a
dropdown "identify the best description of your input" the choices were
FoxPro code, .net code, Python code, pseudocode, other code, text, [OT]
and Sheep.
Then there was an "output" dropdown labeled "select your desired output"
and those choices were correct FoxPro code, correct .net code, correct
Python code, correct other code, good text, logical, intelligent [OT]
and Sheep. Then there was an "output display window".
Finally there were a series of controls, test, create .exe, create
Windows setup file, create Linux package, create web application. I
thought, I have to *try* this right now.
So I did! First I plunked in my eight year's work of failed FoxPro code,
chose correct Python code and out it came, in seconds! I pressed the
test control and the program sprang upon the screen, just as I had
always dreamed that it someday would. I played with it for a few minutes
and found to my delight that it was just what I had always wanted,
everything worked and worked ever so well.
Then, I popped in one of the most overbearing ad-hominem [OT] posts I
could find on my hard drive, chose logical, intelligent [OT] and out
came a most reasoned, objective version. Remarkable considering that
Paul avoids [OT] and Ed has a point of view that is usually to the D
side, but there it was.
Then I popped in the Gettysburg address, and it came back unchanged. I
got to thinking, this is not just software, this is *artificial
intelligence* and they are just giving it to the world for a holiday
present!
Well, before I did anything else I created a directory to receive my
completed project, courtesy of Paul and Ed. Just as I was about to press
"create web application" the power to the house went out long enough to
crash the old clunker.
I don't use my home computer very often and I haven't bothered with a
UPS, bad me. When I rebooted and got back to Eudora, the post, the URL,
all of it was gone, checked the archives - no sign. I started to post a
message about "what was that URL . . . " Then I woke up in bed, I'd
dreamed the whole thing.
--
Regards,
Pete
http://elect-pete-theisen.com/
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