Re: [ba-ohs-talk] Node Sequencing [Was: **** Instant Outlining!!! ***]
I believe that Sandy's question is the right one to be asking. I'd suggest
getting close to ZigZag itself; see what Ted says about it, play with gzz
for a while. Then start pondering that question. (01)
Jack
At 05:27 PM 4/23/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Threading cells together is a good metaphor. The key is in the definition of
>the meta data/instructions bound to each cell to serve as the
>infrastructure. Any ideas around on what this architecture would look like?
>Sandy
>
> > From: Eric Armstrong <eric.armstrong@sun.com>
> > Reply-To: ba-ohs-talk@bootstrap.org
> > Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:19:11 -0700
> > To: ba-ohs-talk@bootstrap.org
> > Subject: Re: [ba-ohs-talk] Node Sequencing [Was: **** Instant Outlining!!!
> > ***]
> > Resent-From: <klausner@cubicon.com>
> > Resent-To: s.klausner@attbi.com
> > Resent-Date: Tue, 23 Apr 102 20:18:10 EDT
> >
> > Jack Park wrote:
> >
> >> ... it occurs to me that this discussion is roaming
> >> awfully close to describing Ted Nelson's ZigZag http://xanadu.com/zigzag/
> >> and also at http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/gzz/, an open source Java
> >> program based on the zigzag structure.
> >
> > The notion of stringing cells together with threads lies at the heart
> of the
> > data structure underlying a truely effective system.
> >
> > But does that constitute an interface.
> >
> > For example, could a zig zag structure be used to implement the Radio
> > Userland "instant outlining" that I'm wild to try?
> >
> > For that, one "dimension" consists of responses to a node -- and since
> > each node in the hiearchy has it's own set of responses, is there still
> > one "dimension" in the structure? Conceptually, I think there is, but
> > it seems to me that Zig Zag would have needed to add a new dimension
> > to deal with responses for each node. Did I get the wrong impression,
> > or is that how it would work?
> >
> >
> > (02)