So a few of us are exploring new ways of constructing scalable
distributed agent systems and are playing around with architecting a
first instantiation in either Javascript or in Smalltalk. We are
interested in architecting a system that grow and evolve without
collapsing on the weight of itself, much in the same way the Internet
has been able to grow over the last 40 years without a reboot.
Relatedly, I was watching Alan Kay's'97 OOPSLA address <http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2950949730059754521
>, and his call for a Universal Interface Language popped out at me
and I looked around for potential implementations since then.
Wikipedia claims there hasn't been one yet:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Interface_Language>
I was wondering if folks know of any candidates for a Universal
Interface Language that wikipedia authors may have missed.
And, if we were to make our own, should we start with a REST-like
protocol <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Representational_State_Transfer> supplemented by server-side
javascript or other such animal?
-Steve
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