[squeak-dev] Re: The Old Man

Reinout Heeck reinz at desk.org
Mon Mar 31 13:39:50 UTC 2008


> 
> And an implicit question: after the "next" machine (Turing machine, VM, 
> project, etc) had been built, what would be the next one? Is there an 
> end somewhere or, will it be transcendent (like the meta objectioneers 
> do it :)

Make it smaller :-)

Alan Kay is working on this in the STEPS project:
http://www.vpri.org/pdf/steps_TR-2007-008.pdf (4.4 Mb)

 From page 4:
"We think students are interested because this project seems new and a 
little unusual, and the business folk because the aim is to reduce the 
amount of code needed to make systems by a factor of 100, 1000, 10,000 
or more."


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