Agenda was an incredible piece of software. Seriously useful, and
impossible to describe. But I think it will be most powerful nowadays
chewing through megabytes of web pages, and maybe generating web pages as
output. This means an RDBMS and decent parsers. Standard reliable
components for these tasks are available in the Perl/Python/PHP/MySql
community, and are kept up to date by specialists of these communities. 
Squeak is a nice prototyping tool, these people will make a heavy duty
information dredger.

BTW, I used the original Agenda when I was a journalist. On the original
Toshiba Dynabook, with a RAM drive and 8088 @ 4.77. It was VERY fast. By
the time I had my life in there, it crashed. Called Lotus, said #$#%'".
They replied: Yes, we heard it crashes when the database is large, was
that the case ?


On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Nils Kassube wrote:

> "Jerry Bell" <jdbell at fareselaw.com> writes:
> 
> Yes. It really looks like Smalltalk would be a nice implementation
> language for this project. I'd prefer it myself. However, there are
> a few reasons why this is not going to happen: 
> 
>   - the key reason for choosing the wxWindows framework is that
>     it offers native widgets on the supported platforms. Do not
>     underestimate this. Squeak applications look alien and awkward 
>     for many users. If I show someone Smalltalk, I always make
>     sure to also show Dolphin and VisualWorks (although VW also
>     loses in this department) because of the many negative
>     comments I got about Squeak's GUI.  
> 
>   - a rich set of Python libraries for stuff like Jabber, RDF, 
>     the other zillion XML "technologies", a proven, widely used, 
>     easy-to-use persistent object storage, IMAP, SSL, etc. Yes,
>     I _do_ know that some of this is also available for Squeak.  
> 
>   - the network effect of being able to leverage the work and
>     knowledge of thousands of Python programmers 
> 
> 
>