Folks, I am going to take a break from the previous thread of discussion. Instead, it seems like most people need a tutorial in how to think BIG.
One person in the last thread asked me how I would design a language in light of what I know about programming language theory, with questions ranging all over the subject of how to design languages and how to pick the right language. I get e-mailed questions like this surprisingly often, such that I want to eventually publish a FAQ on these things. However, I think before I do that, people should be much more intimately familiar with Alan Kay, Ian Piumarta, and their ideas. What I am going to do is gather together a list of Alan's speeches and interviews and any published media about him I can get my hands on and assembly it into a wiki, the wik-kay. If you're interested in helping, let me know. I am going to start by fully transcribing Alan Kay's 1997 OOPSLA speech The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet, since I've watched it about 20 times so far and am surprised I've not transfered it to text for faster consumption and easier quoting. I'll probably hopefully set-up an Etherpad server so people can help collaborative transcribe this with me (Google Wave is pure garbage at these kinds of tasks, but Etherpad is the bomb-diggity).
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