Walt Disney Internet Group released Tea
Alan Kay
Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Sat Oct 26 00:32:44 UTC 2002
This has nothing to do with us. We have not been at Disney for more
than a year, and we were unaware that a group there was by
coincidence doing a system also called "Tea". What we've been doing
is now called "Croquet".
Cheers,
Alan
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At 3:33 PM -0600 10/25/02, Nevin Pratt wrote:
>PhiHo Hoang wrote:
>
>>FWIW :
>>
>>http://opensource.go.com/Tea/index.html
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>PhiHo.
>>
>>
>
>While I admit that I need to look deeper, Tea already has two
>strikes against it in my book:
>
>Strike 1:
>From the web site: "Tea is a strongly typed, compiled programming
>language, designed to work within a Java-based hosting environment."
>Note: Further reading reveals that Tea executes within the Java VM.
>
>
>Strike 2:
>From the User Manual:
>"Tea is a template language with a simple syntax, which supports the
>notions of having code inside an ordinary html page, like an ASP".
>Note: In my opinion, any significant amount of code within the HTML
>page is a recipe for a maintenance nightmare.
>
>
>OK, somebody please convince me that I should look deeper. The Walt
>Disney group is a world-class group-- if this were from anybody else
>I would immediately deep-six it without further investigation.
>
>Nevin
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