RE: Microsoft aflare

From: Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Tue Feb 26 2002 - 20:11:24 MST


Hey, this is not a new idea in the academic programming languages community,
not at all. What's new is that commercial software engineering frameworks
are now being created using this model.

Flare does have truly original aspects, but this is not one of them...

-- Ben G

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sl4@sysopmind.com [mailto:owner-sl4@sysopmind.com]On Behalf
> Of Gordon Worley
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 7:27 PM
> To: sl4@sysopmind.com
> Subject: Microsoft aflare
>
>
> Looks like the boys at MS like what Eli is doing:
>
> http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-842922.html
>
> There's one real language, and then lots of `skins' that make the
> language pretty to you (though maybe not anyone else). Hmm, I seem to
> remember reading about this somewhere before ...
>
> --
> Gordon Worley `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty
> http://www.rbisland.cx/ said, `it means just what I choose
> redbird@rbisland.cx it to mean--neither more nor less.'
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