Alan,
AFAIK, I'm not inventing anything new. I am collecting some concepts and 
ideas that I happen to have come across (Mainly Smalltalk +Squeak + UML 
+some of my own) and try to cast them in a consistent architecture. 
Currently, I am creating and implementing a first architecture and  kernel. 
In theory, practice should be straight forward, but I find that practice is 
surprisingly hard. The work isn't finished before I can share it with other 
people and they ask me how I could spend such a long time to get such such 
obvious results.

Mainstream is still to use OS and programming technology from the sixties 
(Unix and 3GLs). I am surprised that so many have been satisfied with so 
little for so long, and that the many innovations that must be out there 
aren't better known.

Cheers
--Trygve

At 27.11.2004 22:36, Alan Grimes wrote:

>>I am not happy because I find I spend an inordinate amount of time 
>>reading code without really understanding it. I can read almost every 
>>statement, but cannot envision what the objects are and do at run time. 
>>(And this applies to code I wrote a year ago.) I need to change the very 
>>notion of a program to get through the barrier to the run time objects. 
>>This means introducing higher level, object oriented notions to give me 
>>leverage and to hide some of the most obfuscating facilities.
>
>
>=)
>I think you are on the brink of re-inventing something I've developed, at 
>least conceptually.
>
>http://users.rcn.com/alangrimes/UCE/sphere.txt
>


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