At Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:58:22 -0300,
Alejandro F. Reimondo wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> >P.S. i think i know the answer to question why "computer revolution
> >didn't happened yet", because every time people inventing something
> > new, they implementing it in C.
> 
> Can be more of one reason, e.g. ... because people are still thinking
>  in bootstraping... a new genesis... something irrelevant in terms
>  of open systems (ambience), like Smalltalk.
> Under the point of view of systems where semantics can change,
>  the genesis is only anegdotic. It is more important the sustainability
>  of the system itself (the persistence of the self... when contents
>  change through time), the survival in case of accidents (after
>  sensing damage), and the preservation of identity (been known
>  as the SAME systems after changes).
> Many syntax can coexists, and it is related with diversity of
>  expression; not with ideals (a mother language/syntax
>  to make the first spell).
> 
> The change of semantics though actions "outside" the system
>  itself make us continue writing programs. oops!
>  the Program class is still missing!  :-P
> IMHO, changes in core semantics and the effects of doing the
>  changes in the system should be promoted, because
>  are important evidence to recognize smalltalk as an open
>  system and not as another OO language (the contrary has
>  happened during last years, insisting in the importance
>  of the "code").
> 
> > Yes, of course, and C compiler is available anywhere!.. then for
> > bootstrapping the image you will just need sources in a text form..
> 
> Image as the snapshot of a system, contains representation
>  of objects.. in text or binary; it is only what has been
>  stored from a system in the past.
> It is as important as a snapshot of a woman.
> I prefer to invest my time gaining experience with the living woman.
> People that write good poems (code) are forced to
>  write another, tomorrow.
> 
> Ah!....
> Another reason for "computer revolution didn't happened yet",
>  can be because people still think in terms of computation,
>  as systems are still made to compute something.

  Good writing.  I am (also) more concerned with finding a good
meta-language.  C is convenience with its ubiquity and having a parser
generator so it is better than assembly.

"The new system" is along the line of "NotSqueak" in
http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2010004_steps10.pdf, which will be quite
different and will have its own evolution path.  But the malleability
is drawn upon from Smalltalk and will be more dynamic in its nature.

-- Yoshiki