RE: merging edit time and run time

Hi Mark,

I remember a post you made some months ago, where you said that OO is an
unproven technology. This struck a chord with me at the time as I was
floundering in a C++/OO project which was being crippled by an inappropriate
paradigm.
What I learnt from this is that, indeed, bad ideas have become popular.
Conversly, good ideas can easily be overlooked.
I came across a post from some months back from Tim Neitz about a CF web
server - actually online.
What amazed me was that I had missed it. Maybe I was on holiday or just too
busy.
But if I missed a key development like that in CF, how many more "good
ideas" are out there, swamped by the noise?

And yes, interactivity is usually understood as the ability to run a script
file...

Just my 2p's worth,

Howerd  8^)


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Slicker [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 10 May 2005 20:49
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: RE: [colorforth] merging edit time and run time


On Tue, 10 May 2005, [iso-8859-1] Frédéric DUBOIS wrote:

>
> I've seen the demo; maybe one can borrow some ideas from it. I've read the
> manifesto; it's a large collection of cliché, not to say B*S*. Listen:
>
> "It is a good time for a revolution."
> How many programming languages maker have said that?

This is the ego-centric part of computing, that this tool or that will
bring about revolution. Really, a revolution in computing is possible but
only because so many good ideas have been accumulating for long from many
different people without being put into widespred use or practice, and at
the same time bad ideas have spread and become popular.

Interactivity is very under exploited. Most computing environments still
follow the batch computing model, subtext makes the computation itself an
object which can be interacted with, I think this is a very interesting
idea worth exploring.

Mark