It's very vague; I'm thinking as I write. My off-the-cuff answer: Start
from Alan's definition of object orientation: "/... Thus its semantics
are a bit like having thousands and thousands of computers all hooked
together by a very fast network./" The BOOK consists of its own objects
as well as objects anywhere on the net. The remote objects may be
written by anybody in any language, but they communicate with the BOOK
according to a fixed message interaction contract. (Contrast with
procedure call interfaces).
There will be many ways for linking users with producers. Google?
Alan Kay once said something like "an operating system is what the
language designers omitted to include in their language". Smalltalk was
built directly on top of the hardware microcode; it was its own
operating system rather than an app. The BOOK should be similar. More
like iOS than an app.
This is fun
--Trygve
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/I am using the term BOOK rather than Dynabook because Alan Kay has the
moral copyright to the latter and he may not agree with what we are doing./
On 25.08.2014 16:15, S Krish wrote:
" The Dynabook SW architecture must be open so that owners can safely
install functionality ('apps') that is available in a marketplace.
(The i-pad with its hardware and its marketplace for apps is at the
back of my mind.)"
Can the intent be expanded a bit more. Is this an intent to have a
Pharo / ST / Dynabook based marketplace or more extensive ?
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Trygve Reenskaug <tryg...@ifi.uio.no
<mailto:tryg...@ifi.uio.no>> wrote:
I don't think the current Smalltalk architecture can meet all your
computing needs because security isn't part of its core and
because it is inconceivable that all the necessary programs can be
developed within its boundaries.
Like several people I met at ESUG, my goal is the Dynabook and the
Dynabook shall, by definition, meet all your needs. A Dynabook
must be safe so that its owner is protected from hackers and other
evildoers. The Dynabook SW architecture must be open so that
owners can safely install functionality ('apps') that is
available in a marketplace. (The i-pad with its hardware and its
marketplace for apps is at the back of my mind.)
I can only see one path from here to there. Start from e.g., Pharo
and simplify it to create a Dynabook architecture with owner
programming and with opening for safely adding functionality
safely ad lib. (I suppose this is an ST based OS?)
Any takers?
--Trygve
On 23.08.2014 17:04, Wilfred Hughes wrote:
Hi folks
I've been playing with Pharo recently, and really enjoying
writing some programs in the Pharo environment.
As a result, I've been wondering if I can use Pharo the way I
would use Emacs, as an environment for doing everything.
For example, can I use Pharo to:
* Send emails to this mailing list?
* Use IRC?
* Start Bash?
* Read the Pharo documentation (e.g. Pharo By Example)?
If these things do exist, how do I discover them? Is there a
package manager I can use to find new tools I can use in Pharo?
