Completely agree Richard. In this talk Alan Kay address that point:
The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTAghAJcO1o <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTAghAJcO1o> Even if we have the visionaries, as in that talk is explained, you need funding to get them working on the vision. I don’t know if our community has enough millionaires to make that happen, so far doesn’t look like it. Or.. we didn’t explore that path well enough > On Dec 28, 2014, at 10:36 PM, horrido <[email protected]> wrote: > > Bret Victor's talk is certainly interesting. This got me thinking... > > What we need is a modern-day PARC with a /next generation/ of visionaries to > advance Smalltalk. They would carry on the work that was begun four decades > ago. > > Here's the thing: The Smalltalk environment has not fundamentally changed > or improved since the Xerox PARC days. We've been tweaking the design here > and there, but nothing groundbreaking has happened. > > Is the current Smalltalk environment the /final word/ on the nature of > dynamic programming and humane representation of thought? I seriously doubt > it. > > Who are the visionaries that will shake things up? How do we find them? > > Let's face it: We've all become rather complacent. (With the exception of > Newspeak, which frankly doesn't impress me much. *We don't need a new > language!*) > > This is something Smalltalk Renaissance should think about. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/The-Smalltalk-Renaissance-Program-tp4797112p4797243.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
