It would be great if everyone on this list would think deeply about how to have an "eternal" system, and only be amplified by it.
For example, take a look at Alex Warth's "Worlds" work (and paper) and see how that might be used to deal with larger problems of consistency and version control in a live system. I also believe that we should advance things so that there are no hidden dependencies, and that dependencies are nailed semantically. Time to move forward ... Cheers, Alan ________________________________ From: K. K. Subramaniam <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, June 13, 2011 8:10:53 AM Subject: Re: [fonc] Alternative Web programming models? On Monday 13 Jun 2011 2:03:29 PM Julian Leviston wrote: > I think the main issue with smalltalk-like "image" systems is that the > system doesn't as easily let you "start from blank" like text-file > source-code style coding does... thats to say, yes, it's possible to start > new worlds, but it's not very easy to reference "bits" of your worlds from > each other... The pre-req for this is a tool to diff two images to generate a delta that can be applied to one to produce another. This is easy to do with line-oriented text files or non-linear xml files but difficult to do with blobs like images. Tools like xdelta operate only at bit level and not object level. Of course, if there was a (normalized) way to transcode .image into .xml and vice versa then xmldiff can be used for that purpose. Subbu _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
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