Fwd: Smalltalk Web Host Opens

> De : Chris Cunnington <[hidden email]>
> Date : 11 décembre 2006 18:17:44 HNEC
> À : The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-
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> Objet : Smalltalk Web Host Opens
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> Smalltalk Web Host Opens
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>     - host a regular site (Perl/PHP) and incorporate as much  
> Smalltalk as
> you like
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> http://www.seasideparasol.com
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> "Possibly, it wasn't simply arrogance, though the PARC researchers  
> did see
> themselves as the Davids who were busy slaying the Goliath of  
> corporate
> time-sharing computing. It was, rather, something deeper, something  
> that was
> probably just a function of human nature. It was a pattern that had  
> already
> been repeated a number of times in computing history and would  
> ultimately be
> repeated many more times. Even with a strong intellectual grasp of the
> consequences of Moore's Law, it has proven almost impossible for  
> the members
> of any given generation of computing technology to accept the fact  
> that it
> will be cannibalized by an upcoming generation. Many of the PARC  
> researchers
> were aware of the computing hobbyist movement, but because the tiny  
> little
> machines could hardly do anything they were easy to ignore or  
> dismiss as
> toys. Later, Alan Kay took pleasure in poking fun at the  
> Homebrewers by
> saying that the hobbyists actually enjoyed their machines more when  
> they
> were broken, because then they could actually do something with them."
>
> John Markoff   "What The Dormouse Said", (2005), page 251
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> Chris Cunnington
> Toronto
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