Re: [fonc] Task management in a world without apps.

2013-11-04 Thread karl ramberg
I guess as you build more and more capable systems it will be harder and harder to burn the disk packs. You will redo your work several times over to get virtually no further. But once you get so much ahead that your new system outpace all the previous it will start a life of it's own. It seems

[fonc] Modern General Purpose Programming Language (Was: Task management in a world without apps.)

2013-11-04 Thread Loup Vaillant-David
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 04:11:15AM -0800, Alan Kay wrote: if we were to attempt an ultra high level general purpose language today, we wouldn't use Squeak or any other Smalltalk as a model or a starting place. May I ask what would be an acceptable starting point? Maru, maybe? Loup.