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 Webneurons Web 3 - The main goal of webneurons is to develop a better way of programming computers. Demonstration of a simple webneuron network. Also includes a minimal javascript XML parser of 37 lines.
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Web 3. Hyperlinked software functions. A simple distributed way to process web information. An email to Bill Thompson of the BBC.
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Email to Bill Thompson of the BBC on 6 Aug 2006, let's see if he replies.
SUBJECT: Web 3, hyperlinked software functions
Hi Bill,
You wrote the following in the article
"Where does the web go from here":-
"Everyone is trying very hard to find a way to turn the web from an
online document delivery system with built-in linking into a true
distributed information service"
The programming languages are the problem. They are separate from the
web but should all be the same package. You need to integrate
hyperlinking into the languages. Really the languages like C, java
and php, mySQL etc were all written without considering the
fundamental importance of <A HREF.
<A HREF... is the foundation of the web. It's amazingly simple and
astounding it wasn't mainstream in the 1960's.
Take the main idea of Tim Berners Lee "to allow links to be made to
any information anywhere", now add "to allow links to be made to any
software function anywhere" and maybe we are getting somewhere.
In this way the web can come to life. The brain works in exactly this
way, neurons (functions) are hyperlinked to many other neurons in a
network and information passes automatically according to the
information/program in the neurons. The web is a dead brain and a
web page is a dead neuron since it can have links to many other web
pages, but is incapable generally of activating any automatic
sequence involving many other web pages. Object oriented programming
is wrong since structuring (inheritance etc) should not be done at
the programming level but rather at the web level. The old 'goto'
programming method was basically correct and the software equivalent
of <A HREF.
For networking read "brain". The web is trying to make a brain, but
missing an ingredient. Web 2 is trying to activate things but is all
over the place, and a central controlling principle is required,
namely hyperlinked software functions.
<A HREF is half the solution that is why the web has done so much.
This is a vital ingredient that mimics the brain's ability for one
neuron to link to another. The other half is what we need to worry
about. Code on one server needs to be able to call code on another
server i.e. hyperlinked. The caller may or may not receive results
but program flow would NOT have to return to caller unlike
conventional functions so is more like GOTO than GOSUB. The code
could be in a web page or not, it doesn't really matter. What
matters is that we can generate an automatic cascade of information
processing cross server that easily interacts with web pages. The
web can change the web.
XML won't help much since the real problem is programming not data.
I have done quite a bit on this, an idea was first posted to comp.ai
and a few other newsgroups on 21 May 96
http://plexos.com/Webneurons/564.htm
resulting in a New Scientist
article http://plexos.com/Webneurons/821.htm
Cheers,
John
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 BBC NEWS | Technology | Where does the web go from here?
- news.bbc.co.uk
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