ACCU meeting: SpringBox
Interesting talk by Nile Geisinger of
"dLoo".
Beyond Object-Oriented Programming to what
they call "Symbol-Oriented Programming".
Our discussion about it included mentions of
Aspect-Oriented Programming, Web Services, Functional Programming,
Security, etc.
dLoo's product, "SpringBox", uses the combination of
Symbol-Oriented Programming with web-addressable
code units ("Symbols") to build a community-based way
of growing domain-specific languages.
Current version of SpringBox is written in Python; plans
are to move it to being wholly written "in its own Symbols".
It isn't really related, but it reminds me in some ways of the
gzigzag project (name
change due soon) that implements some of Ted Nelson's
original ideas about how information might usefully be
structured.
(I posted a slightly expanded version of this entry as a
discussion topic on the Lambda weblog.)
12:16:09 AM
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