Java Glossary : Canadian Mind Products
Last updated 2004-06-28 by Roedy
Green ©1996-2004 Canadian Mind Products
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- Canadian
Mind Products
- a not-for-profit company dedicated to thinking globally and acting globally.
née Consolidated Moose Pasture. When I was a kid there was a comic strip
called "There Aughta Be A Law" that often featured a rag tag company
called Consolidated Moose Pasture. I told my three sisters that when I grew up I
was going to have a company called CMP. We would sue people who made fun of us.
Back in 1985, when Byte magazine asked to publish an article on Abundance,
my "public domain powerhouse" home-brew computer language, they asked
what CMP stood for. I couldn't tell them the truth or they might change their
mind about publishing, so on the spot I stammered out a fresh interpretation of
the acronym. At one point CMP was 8 people, but at this point it has dwindled
down to just me, Roedy Green and one computer. Unfortunately I still have not
found an FTP site for the public domain BBL 32-bit DOS Forth Compiler or the
Abundance compiler.
Circa 1972 I watched a master Chinese painter. He worked for what felt like
hours doing nothing but pecking away at his brush. Suddenly he stabbed the brush
onto the paper. Everyone jumped. He pulled the brush away and there was an
intricately detailed picture of a bird and chrysanthemum produced "instantaneously
". In a similar way, I still have hopes my work with BBL and Abundance may
be similarly translated to Java.
