Eliminating assignments and variable syntax (accessors)

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at disney.com
Sun Aug 15 18:43:56 UTC 1999


Bijan --

I thought Michal Starke's Golgi was a very nice start. Michal, where are
you? We haven't heard from you about Golgi for a while. Have you tried the
next step in Golgi?

Cheers,

Alan

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At 6:54 AM -0800 8/15/99, Bijan Parsia wrote:
>At 12:55 PM -0400 8/14/99, Toby Watson wrote:
>
>>Alan Kay said:
>>
>>>      Suggestion: turn all the energy worrying about formatting
>>Smalltalk-80
>>> conventions into good ideas for making real OOP inviting to look at and we
>>> can make these happen right from the parse tree ....
>>
>>OK, let me throw in a couple of artifacts that I come across everyday for
>>perusal.
>>
>>1. Dave Winer's Frontier, which uses an outliner for scripting in UserTalk,
>>and has a certain 'look'.
>>
>>http://www.scripting.com/frontier/snippets/nerdsguide.html (scroll down to
>>see editor)
>>
>>http://frontier.userland.com/ (general)
>>
>>(actually Frontier may be of interest to the Squeak community wrt. the way
>>it deals with being a hot system. Guest Databases, Suites, etc. )
>
>Michael Starke's Golgi in fact was inspired by Frontier and implements (in
>an alpha way) outlining code panes in Squeak, with the added advantage that
>the outline widgets are semantically significant.
>
>Cheers,
>Bijan Parsia.





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