Am 11.02.2005 um 06:41 schrieb Blake:

> On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:24:27 +0100, Bert Freudenberg <bert at impara.de> 
> wrote:
>
>> No, Islands is project isolation. The "async event stuff" is a way of 
>> sending messages asynchronously. Incidentally I've written a bit 
>> about this recently: 
>> http://croquetweak.blogspot.com/2005/02/about-scripts.html
>
> I was initially confused by two things in your entry, which I re-read 
> and, finally, understood.

Glad to hear that :) We really need some documentation to make the 
philosophy clear. Once you know the basic concept it's rather easy to 
grok the code.

[self note: 'need to write up something about events that trigger 
scripts, and then about fields which generate events'] asap

> As someone who's worked in a lot of traditional GUI builders: Wow. 
> That is cool.
>
> Also, as someone who's tried to convert old-style top-down programming 
> which made things so easy to understand to use modern even-driven 
> GUIs: Wow. That is cool.

Exactly. Simpler is better, for end-users as well as for us hackers. A 
single paradigm from bottom to top pays in the end, as every 
Smalltalker knows :)

- Bert -