Dear Selfers! I am curious if there are any relationship between Kansas and Tcl, both from Sun! Best wishes Albertina http://www.lsi.usp.br/~lourenci...
Albertina Lourenci
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Mar 4, 2004 7:10 pm
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TCL already existed before John Osterhaut (spelling?) joined Sun, and while Tcl was here, there was very little mutual influence between the Self and TCL...
Randy Smith
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Mar 4, 2004 10:26 pm
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Randy Smith wrote: Hi Randy! John K. Ousterhout in IEEE Computer March 1998 writes: I am not aware of any rapid-development environments for GUIs based on a...
Albertina Lourenci
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Mar 5, 2004 4:05 pm
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Okay Albertina, I'll try to respond for you here: Self's GUI was never tuned to being like Motif or being fully brought up to address the construction of stand...
Randy Smith
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Mar 5, 2004 6:56 pm
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Randy Smith wrote: Thanks Randy! Indeed in the same paper Ousterhout recognizes there are many interesting languages that cannot be characterized cleanly as a...
Albertina Lourenci
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Mar 5, 2004 8:30 pm
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... Just to reinforce this idea by saying the same thing in slightly different words: if you define as a basic parameter of your project that it will run as a...
Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote: Hi Jecel! ... I see your viewpoint. ... I miss the point here. Semiotically speaking there may be different forms for the same...
Albertina Lourenci
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Mar 5, 2004 10:32 pm
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... Just to add a note to this... Self does not have any working GUI/app framework that would be sufficient for creating an usable application. And as I see...
Stefan Urbanek wrote: Dear Stefan! See below! ... Scripting languages and system programming languages are complementary, and most major computing platforms...
Albertina Lourenci
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Mar 6, 2004 9:44 am
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... This link appears to be broken. I think might really help in getting people to try and use Self if: - when you download Self on OSX, it would be one file...
Albertina, ... <snip> ... Well ... nobody here has doubts. You know about the power, people on this list know, I do and perhaps very-very few others, but that...
Stefan Urbanek wrote: Hi Stef! ... to design and plan sustainable cities. Many interesting applications will stop because computer science is still crawling! ...
Albertina Lourenci
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Mar 7, 2004 11:43 pm
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hi! i need help obviously.. i'm doing a research paper on Self, about what it is(like its details, etc).. i was wondering could i ever use self on a microsoft...
... It should be possible to run Self in Windows, but I have never tried it. If you look at the download section of http://www.merlintec.com:8080/Self/ you...
thank you very much.. i think i will just rely on published papers about self... ... It should be possible to run Self in Windows, but I have never tried it. ...
... The problem is that there are two contexts, with some forms used in one and others used in the other. That makes programming more awkward than it should...
Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote: Dear Jecel! ... Is the main difference between syntax for literal and graphical objects that the latter is interactive? ... I put...
Albertina Lourenci
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Mar 13, 2004 5:59 pm
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... The main difference is that, in existing systems, they are used in different places. The graphical object normally (but not always) is interactive while we...
Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote: Hi Jecel! ... Of course for graphical designers this makes no sense! What I understand by graphical syntax is something like the GUI,...
Albertina Lourenci
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Mar 15, 2004 10:19 pm
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... It is an example of a textual notation, not a graphical one. ... My point exactly. ... I am typing this in an application running in a GUI, yet can't use...
Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote: Hi Jecel! ... And this confirms my viewpoints there is no one-to-one mapping. Different functionalities are involved. ... I see! It...
Albertina Lourenci
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Mar 16, 2004 3:19 pm
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sirs, does anyone know how to use JSelf (the java implementation of Self) on winXP? It's for my school project. Help would be very much appreciated. Thank...
"Self: the Movie;" files have been moved to a server with a better connection to the internet. While they were on my machine last week, a weblog entry ...
... The two Quicktime versions (30 and 81MB) are the ones I got from there, as indicated on the Self swiki page. I only expanded it (actually it became...
... Oh, ok. ... That's cool - thanks. If it becomes available from a reliably "permanent" location (say, sun.com), I'll take mine down to free up my iDisk...
... Brian Rice pointed out in a reply in that list that previous versions did work with MacOS X but check the release note for the changes (the main ones are...
Jonathan Sillito wrote: Dear Jonathan! ... produced what might be called a "pearl of immanent knowledge". Sure the beauty of Vancouver enables you to contact...
