31 Mar
2000
31 Mar
'00
9:39 p.m.
Paul McDonough wrote:
In the course of the abandoned Jigsaw project, ParcPlace-Digitalk's team implemented a very similar interface/implementation split in the Collection classes. Although the project was dumped,
Why?
Stephan
that part of it was (if memory serves) complete and in use internally. Presumably, the code still belongs to one or more of: Cincom, SEAGULL, ObjectShare, StarBase. As far as I know, nobody's using it and it's just sitting on some server somewhere. Perhaps the owning company (my guess would be Cincom?) could be convinced to toss at least that slice of Jigsaw out as open source and let the world have its way with it ... ?
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Stephan Rudlof (sr@evolgo.de)
"Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis.
You can't simply say, 'Today I will be brilliant.'"
-- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3