Waldemar Kornewald wrote: on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:57:20 +0100:
> There are more of such projects? I haven't found anything as serious
> as this one.

I consider my own Neo Smalltalk project (previously known as Self/R and
before that as Merlin OS) to have a lot in common with this one. I also
want to have a small, self contained and self described system that can
be understood by a single person (which in my case might be an extremely
gifted young person and this requires some thought during the design).
The self description includes the hardware, so in this regard Neo is a
bit more ambitious than Fonc though that makes some things much simpler.

A major difference between the two projects (not counting how much there
is to download and to read - practically nothing yet, in my case) is
that my descriptions are created by direct manipulation of persistent
objects while Fonc is about translations between abstraction levels. The
latter approach is far, far more powerful but the former is more
accessible to a larger group of people by being more concrete.

http://www.merlintec.com:8080/software/
http://www;merlintec.com:8080/hardware/

The above Swikis, messed up as they are, have the most recent
information about my project.

-- Jecel

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