Hi Carl
Just to keep on saying it ... the STEPS project had/has completely different
goals than the Smalltalk project -- STEPS really is a "science project" -- or a
collection of science projects -- that has never been aimed at a deployable
artifact, but instead is aimed at finding better and more compact ways to
express meanings.
We did make it possible to exhibit and permute a wide range of media in
real-time -- it makes it much easier to show people the results of important
pieces of code this way -- but this is quite a ways from the packaging and
finishing that was done for the Smalltalks.
However, it would be possible to do something analogous to a Smalltalk from the
current state of things, but we are instead pushing even more deeply into
"Whats" rather than "Hows".
Cheers,
Alan
>________________________________
> From: Carl Gundel <ca...@psychesystems.com>
>To: 'Fundamentals of New Computing' <fonc@vpri.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 2:45 PM
>Subject: Re: [fonc] Final STEP progress report?
>
>Thanks Kim. Will there be enough documentation for interested people to be
>able to build on top of VPRI's STEPS project? I'm thinking something like
>the blue book with a CDROM. :-)
>
>-Carl
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: fonc-boun...@vpri.org [mailto:fonc-boun...@vpri.org] On Behalf Of Kim
>Rose
>Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 5:37 PM
>To: Fundamentals of New Computing
>Subject: Re: [fonc] Final STEP progress report?
>
>Hello,
>
>For those of you interested and waiting -- the NSF (National Science
>Foundation) funding for the 5-year "STEPS" project has now finished (we
>stretched that funding to last for 6 years). The final report on this work
>will be published and available on our website by the end of this calendar
>year.
>
>We have received some more funding (although not to the extent of this
>original 5-year grant) and our work will carry on. That said, we're always
>looking for more funding to maintain day to day operations so we welcome any
>support and donations at any time. :-)
>
>Regards,
>Kim Rose
>Viewpoints Research Institute
>
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>
>On Nov 8, 2012, at 5:23 AM, Carl Gundel wrote:
>
>> Well, I do hope that VPRI has managed to find more funding money so that
>this doesn't have to be a final STEP report. ;-)
>>
>> -Carl
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: fonc-boun...@vpri.org [mailto:fonc-boun...@vpri.org] On Behalf Of
>Loup Vaillant
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 1:45 PM
>> To: Fundamentals of New Computing
>> Subject: [fonc] Final STEP progress report?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The two last progress reports having being published in October, I was
>wondering if we will have the final one soon. Have we an estimation of when
>this might be completed? As a special request, I'd like to know a bit about
>what to expect.
>>
>> Unless of course it's all meant to be a surprise. But please at least
>tell me you have decided not to disclose anything right now. In any case, I
>promise I'll be patient.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Loup.
>>
>> PS: If I sound like a jumping impatient child, that's because right
>> now, I feel like one.
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