Steve, Something pointed out to me by Microsoft Silverlight -and- Expression Blend architect John Gossman [1] is that eventually these issues get resolved, but the process is pretty ugly. He linked this book as a reference point http://www.amazon.com/Strangest-Man-Quantum-Genius-Farmelo/dp/0571222781 One of Alan's goals is figuring out how we can compress the timespan for going through this process; read the NSF stuff about "from nothing" bootstrapping as an example.
[1] John is widely respected inside Redmond, because he is so good at taking complex formulations of ideas and distilling them down into simple formalisms. On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Steve Dekorte <st...@dekorte.com> wrote: > > On 2010-07-10, at 12:25 AM, Hans-Martin Mosner wrote: > > For quite some time I've been pondering the duality of the class/instance > and method/context relations. In some sense, a context is an object created > by instantiating its method, much like a normal object is instantiated from > its class... > > > Self does just that: > > http://labs.oracle.com/self/language.html > > Io (following Self's example) does as well. In this recent video: > > http://www.infoq.com/interviews/johnson-armstrong-oop > > Ralph Johnson talks about how long it takes for computing culture to absorb > new ideas (in his example, things like OO, garbage collection and dynamic > message passing) despite them being obvious next steps in retrospect. I > think prototypes could also be an example of this. > > It seems as if each computing culture fails to establish a measure for it's > own goals which leaves it with no means of critically analyzing it's > assumptions resulting in the technical equivalent of religious dogma. From > this perspective, new technical cultures are more like religious reform > movements than new scientific theories which are measured by agreement with > experiment. e.g. had the Smalltalk community said "if it can reduce the > overall code >X without a performance cost >Y" it's better, perhaps > prototypes would have been adopted long ago. > > - Steve > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >
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