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He didn't mention some of the stuff Viewpoints was working on which seems to have petered out (although maybe "bad funders" was a dig at that). I'd like to know

by ioddly 9y ago

He didn't mention some of the stuff Viewpoints was working on which seems to have petered out (although maybe "bad funders" was a dig at that). I'd like to know what happened to those projects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COLA_(software_architecture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COLA_(software_architecture)

loup-vaillant 9y ago
The STEPS was more or less finished if I recall correctly. The last report took forever to get public, but they did get a proof of concept out. Many people asked for something usable, but that wasn't really the goal, so they didn't do the polishing —it sure takes work, but it doesn't prove much. We can still take the ideas, though. We could integrate some of them in the current ecosystem to write simpler programs, or even simpler ecosystems. How about something like squeak or pharo, only 10 times simpler?