Nail Soup
John Maxwell
jmax at sfu.ca
Mon May 10 21:59:59 UTC 2004
Dave wrote:
> That would be me; this is way over my head. Somebody please explain
> what Squat is all about and why it is Extremely Clever. Thanks.
Let me have a crack at this, because I'm new to this, but I think I get
it.
If the original "Objects" idea was to divide the computer into zillions
of tiny computers, "each simulating a useful structure," then this
means that those 'zillions of tiny computers' don't even need to be in
the same box - they can be truly distributed. This concept has been at
least latent in Smalltalk (and the Internet, for that matter, as I
suppose Java and .NET are instantiations of this notion) from the
beginning. Squat makes it work in a very tiny package, leverages the
ubiquitous web as an on-ramp and then sets up a messaging system for
Squats to talk to one another.
Please correct me if I'm misrepresenting this :-)
- John Maxwell
jmax at sfu.ca
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