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

Even if we have the visionaries, as in that talk is explained, you need funding to get them working on the vision.

I don���t know if our community has enough millionaires to make that happen, so far doesn���t look like it.

Or.. we didn���t 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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