[MD] The Greeks?

[Mary]

Hi Kremel,

> [Krimel]
> Try sticking this piece into puzzle. You are a code jockey. The
> intellectual
> level is composed of ideas, patterns of thought. Ideas are encoded in
> wetware in binary that is platform specific to each individual human.
> Symbols are second order languages that can be manipulated across
> platforms.
> The intellectual level is virtual storage that holds all of the second
> order
> code.
> 
[Mary Replies] 
I would prefer the analogy that the Intellectual Level is object-oriented.

> Pirsig talks about SOM not because it is not some universal assembly
> language that metaphysically runs on Intel and Motorola chips but
> because it
> is Basic or maybe C++. He hopes the MoQ will be like Java.
> 
[Mary Replies] 
I certainly hope the MoQ is more efficient that Java.  It's easy to code but
a dog at runtime.

Best,
Mary