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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana">On 11/03/03 10:19,
"Alan Kay" <Alan.Kay@squeakland.org> wrote:</font>
<blockquote><font face="Verdana" size="+1">Our previous plans to make
a kind of "superhypercard" and then get version 2 of etoys
from that much more comprehensive design did not work out at Disney,
and it wasn't until recently that we've been able to get that plan
going again. I think this is more like the system you want, and you'll
have a chance to try it out this summer.</font><br>
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<div>"Lic. Edgar J. De Cleene"
<edgardec2001@yahoo.com.ar><font face="Verdana">
replied...</font></div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana">And when we have a
truly Hypercard compatible system, I think our users base are ten
times what is now.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana">I beg you and others
for give us this.</font></blockquote>
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<div><font face="Verdana">Another take on this that might interest you
is my intention to revive a Fabrik-like system in Squeak (see
http://users.ipa.net/~dwighth/smalltalk/Fabrik/Fabrik.html).
This is another thing that did not work out while we were at Disney.
The idea is just to make it really simple to do little
"computational sketches" in Squeak, whether with wires or
with little spreadsheet-like tables, and with probably some overlap
with Morphic Wrappers. My metaphor for this is to turn any pen
computer into the proverbial "back of an envelope" for
simple calculations. It could then be married to some of the
very cool parts of eToys, or possibly into a cool web scripting
system. For the latter I have in mind a different marriage to,
eg, screen-scraping and Flash components, but this would require help
from others.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana">At any rate, as soon as I have something
that's at least fun to play with, I'll put it out for others to play
with.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana">Regards</font></div>
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