On Aug 15, 1999, Alan Kay wrote:
I thought Michal Starke's Golgi was a very nice start. Michal, where are you? We haven't heard from you about
On the road somewhere between Bulgaria and Turkey at the time you wrote this ;-). Been far away from computers for a long time. Nice to see those msgs while catching up on a summer's worth of emails!
I've been using and steadily improving Golgi as an outline editor during the last year, and it works beautifully for my current 6000+ headers/notes. It's getting pretty solid, and I'll put another version up next week when i find time to package it.
On the code-editor aspect, less progress. Partly because I came to have the feeling of working against the system rather than with it, so I decided to pause.
[The trouble was in part that it was not a good idea to adapt the standard browser (it relies to much on having a string as a model). I'll thus restart a browser from scratch. But I haven't yet found a UI for the method/class/category part that I would really like to implement.]
good scripting syntaxes for real OOP languages have been done (c.f. CodeWorks)
care to elaborate on that (for those of us who know nothing about CodeWork)?
michal