On Tuesday 29 May 2007 8:58 pm, Alan Kay wrote:
> Hi  Subbu --
>
> See what you think of the "preposterous proposal" (as one reviewer termed
> it).
>
> http://www.vpri.org/pdf/NSF_prop_RN-2006-002.pdf
Some of the ideas presented (e.g. Island, pseudo-time) would have been 
considered 'bold' or 'risky' in the nineties, but not so today. Kairos works 
so well in real world (e.g. children, artists, farmers, etc), so there is no 
reason for computing should stick to chronos time.

Building a 20KLOC monolith would definitely be a challenge. Unix kernel was 
only around 6K lines of C when it started. TinyCC (circa 2004), a bootloader 
that compiles Linux kernel on the fly and runs it, is about 7500 lines of C. 
The issue here is not one of space or speed constraints but one of verifying 
correctness of such a monolith within engineering tolerances.

Regards .. Subbu