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What if all Smalltalk objects had an URL? It could provide simple (and complex) network services to any computer on the Internet. There is a profound lack of am
by saadalem 6y ago
What if all Smalltalk objects had an URL? It could provide simple (and complex) network services to any computer on the Internet. There is a profound lack of ambition around software and Operating Systems.
- tgbugs 6y agoWork on this has been done. See Polymorphic Identifiers: Uniform Resource Access in Objective-Smalltalk [1]. 1. https://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/publications/media/WeiherHirschfeld_2013_PolymorphicIdentifiersUniformResourceAccessInObjectiveSmalltalk_AcmDL.pdf https://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/publications/media...
- mpweiher 6y agoIn fact, the Objective-Smalltalk site (http://objective.st http://objective.st) is served by an Objective-Smalltalk web server, with the incoming URLs converted the PIs and then dispatched via nested Storage Combinators. ( https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3359591.3359729 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3359591.3359729). :-)