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Thursday, April 03, 2003

iRoster 1.0b4. iRoster is a tool for finding and connecting to Rendezvous enabled services such as web servers, Apple File Sharing (AFP) servers, and others. It can also advertise other services that may not yet work with Rendezvous. This version fixes several bugs and adds an important feature to iRoster - users can now attach custom AppleScript actions to Rendezvous services. The attached scripts can then be executed automatically when new Rendezvous services come and go online and offline. [AppleScript Info] 9:25:39 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Alan Kay on the Computer Revolution. I got this in email as a response to this post: Last night I read a piece by Dr. Alan Kay. Within the article is a section "Most of current practice today was invented in the 60s". It goes on: "It is worth noting the slow pace of assimilation and acceptance in the larger world. C++ was made by doing to C roughly what was done to Algol in 1965 to make Simula. Java is very similar. The mouse and hyper-linking were invented in the early sixties. HTML is a markup language like SCRIBE of the late 60s. XML is a more generalized notation, but just does notationally what LISP did in the 60s. Linux is basically Unix, which dates from 1970, yet is now the “hottest thing” for many programmers. Overlapping window UIs are one of the few ideas from the seventies that has been adopted today. But most of the systems ideas that programmers use today are from the data- and server-centric world of the 60s. The lag of adoption seems to be about 30 years for the larger world of programming, especially in business." This, as you might expect, leads us to believe that the time for Smalltalk (and Lisp?) is about to come? [Cincom Smalltalk Blog - Smalltalk with Rants] 7:51:15 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

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