Andy Wardley wrote: > The more general concept of defining a document as a dynamic collection > of parts which are pulled together on demand, can be traced back to the > 1960's when Ted Nelson first described what is now known as the "Xanadu" > project. > > There has been much written about these systems, and many different > implementations offering various different flavours and features. I've > always shared Ted's view that this has potential to be the next really > big killer app, but I don't think anyone has managed to pull the right > pieces together to make something that works well in practice... > > ...yet! :-) >
oohhh....! aren't those words to get the blood pumping! well, looks like i've been hooked... *sigh* yet another project to take on... *whimper* hm, i think i'm going to have to make another post to this list, asking for help on one of my curent projects, so i can start on this one. PS, i already have a name for this xanadu-like project: Theoretic Alloy (damn, i hope 'alloy' isn't taken...).
