Hi Markus & Mariano Thanks, will read the PDF later. Would like to contribute to this project later, when I am more proficient with Smalltalk and have things that might be useful. Have to think a lot about all this, before I get an identity crisis, therefore I am taking a "long" walk to Ravensburg (15 km) Always surrounded by many impressive DNA-based objects (Birds,Trees,Grass, Flowers) that also change at times, all by themselves. All the time in the world to do so, currently no job. Will no longer pollute this thread :o) Later Ted
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 27, 2011, at 11:25 AM, Ted F.A. van Gaalen wrote: > >> Hi Marcus >> As I wrote, I am thinking from the perspective >> of an application developer, a typical pharo-user ? >> imagine that I/we have hundreds of >> apps written, will they run unchanged >> say 5 years from now? > > Yes, using the old version of Pharo that you used when > you implemented them. > Like MacOS 9 programs run on MacOS 9. > > If you want to run your MacOS 9 Program on MacOSX, there > is for a time an emulator, and for a time some source compatibility. > But in the end, the only option is to port. > > There is no magic. > > You can select between > > -> Inventing the Future > -> Be compatible to the Past at any cost. > > If what you have in the Past is valuable, selecting the second option > makes sense. (IBM, Microsoft). If not, then it's idiotic. > > We will improve this a bit in the future, but this is research, so no > promises. > You can read some high-level talk abot it here, for example: > > http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Nier08aSelfAwareEternal.pdf > > Marcus > > > > -- > Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de > INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD. > > >
