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Here's a presentation, while chronologically earlier, that is specifically about the Viewpoints STEPS project which includes a good segment on OMeta: https://ww
by blihp 10y ago
Here's a presentation, while chronologically earlier, that is specifically about the Viewpoints STEPS project which includes a good segment on OMeta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAT4iewOHDs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAT4iewOHDs
As jgon mentioned, Alex (the author of OMeta) continues work on Ohm, his successor to OMeta. Also, various flavors of OMeta implementations live on in Smalltalk, Lisp, Javascript etc. Recently VPRI released their final annual report to the NSF publicly with indications that work is ongoing. So there are at least pockets of interest and activity.
- m_mueller 10y agoThat's actually the presentation I had in mind but I couldn't find it anymore. Searching with Alan Kay as a keyword is not a big help xD. Thank you for linking it. I'd love to play around with this stuff.
- blihp 10y agoI can probably point you in the right direction for OMeta... what's you're preferred dynamic language? The other material is a bit tougher to come by as I don't believe Viewpoints has released a code snapshot of what they've been working on to date. There are bits and pieces in terms of code drops but mainly what they've released are the NSF annual reports and various papers discussing aspects of STEPS on the VPRI web site (i.e. http://vpri.org/html/writings.php http://vpri.org/html/writings.php)
- m_mueller 10y agoOMeta's successor library has been linked here, so that's not a problem. IMO it's a shame that Professor Kay never fully adopted OSS. Their new way of doing a whole OS sure is inspirational - I could even see it as a very interesting basis as a successor to Linux.