On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 03:15:34PM -0400, Chris Cunnington wrote:
> http://www.grancelang.org
> http://www.virtualworldframework.org
> http://www.julialang.org
> http://www.insteon.net
> http://www.armdevices.net
> http://www.riscoscode.com/Pages/Item0003.html
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> The meeting was attended by: Bert, Tim, Casmiro, Chris M., Chris C., 
> Colin, Yoshiki, Craig, and Colin.
> 
> Colin wondered about reifying interfaces and a tool for revealing 
> protocols as they are actually used.
> Bert went to OOPSLA in Tuscon, Ariz. where there was a lot of talk about 
> JavaScript, Potsdam Squeakers had two presentations, Dave Smith 
> presented his Virtual World Framework, and Rob Pike did a presentation 
> on Go.
> Andrew Black is working a new teaching language called Grace.
> Colin mentioned a new language called Julia.
> Chris M. asked what the holy grail of programming was and why Croquet 
> wasn't a wider success.
> OpenCobalt sounds stalled as Matthew Fulmer graduated and got a job.
> One of the topics discussed around Croquet was market position: what is 
> this tool for? It was discussed that a simple, clear tool with a 
> specific niche, an obvious problem could out-market a general tool, a 
> ball of potential.
> Colin said that DabbleDB had some of that problem. It was great 
> technology, but didn't connect as soundly with given domains (i.e. 
> planning a wedding)
> Tim talked about how he's networked his house: his lights have switches 
> similar (if not actually from) Insteon.
> Discussion of the Raspberry Pi computer and its low price point 
> reemerged. Tim pointed out that the RiscOS now runs on the R. Pi computer.

RiscOS on the Raspberry Pi?!? Woohoo! Clearly this calls for an update to
the RiscOS VM on squeakvm.org, otherwise people will not be able to have
proper block closure support on their Pi. Tim, I'll promise to buy you a
brand new Raspberry Pi if you compile a fresh RiscOS VM for it ;)



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