Completely agree Richard. In this talk Alan Kay address that point: The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTAghAJcO1o <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTAghAJcO1o> Even if we have the visionaries, as in that talk is explained, you need funding to get them working on the vision. I donât know if our community has enough millionaires to make that happen, so far doesnât look like it. Or.. we didnât explore that path well enough
On Dec 28, 2014, at 10:36 PM, horrido <horrido.hobbies@gmail.com> wrote:
Bret Victor's talk is certainly interesting. This got me thinking...
What we need is a modern-day PARC with a /next generation/ of visionaries to advance Smalltalk. They would carry on the work that was begun four decades ago.
Here's the thing: The Smalltalk environment has not fundamentally changed or improved since the Xerox PARC days. We've been tweaking the design here and there, but nothing groundbreaking has happened.
Is the current Smalltalk environment the /final word/ on the nature of dynamic programming and humane representation of thought? I seriously doubt it.
Who are the visionaries that will shake things up? How do we find them?
Let's face it: We've all become rather complacent. (With the exception of Newspeak, which frankly doesn't impress me much. *We don't need a new language!*)
This is something Smalltalk Renaissance should think about.
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