Hi Eliot, On 20. 12. 2010 20:00, Eliot Miranda wrote:
- Namespaces - Breakpoints - Monticello/Metacello directly from browser - portable async FFI - SOAP/WSDL with object mapping and one-click tool - even more usability enhancements - rock solid image and VM for image-only persistency - more Eliot :)
:) But this could mean lots of things. a) I'm not doing enough, b) I need to put on weight, c) my jokes are great, d) you want specific things done in the VM area. So while this made me laugh and so far is inspiring (I mean, if you really do mean a) I'm going to have a miserable xmas, and my wife is going to be miserable if you mean b) ) I'd love for you to make some specific suggestions as to what more Eliot might mean (besides eating a /lot/ over xmas to try and create a few more kilos of Eliot).
:) Being a bit short on time to pair your humoresque style :), let me jump strait into what "more Eliot" means to me: - sooner a really good open-source Smalltalk VM on pair and extending VW one. That is, more opportunity to you to get your ideas how should a VM look like to fly towards a goal, - immutability/read only objects or some other mechanism to detect object's change easily, - rock solid, stable and reliable VM and image for us the "image as a database" guys, who are more numerous as one wants to confess :) Again, VW is such an example, very reliable for such persistency, for which you deserves quite some gratitude :) Well, let me finish, otherwise you'll start right now. But I don't understand: if you start right now, you won't have a time to get fat, if you don't start now, you',ll get fat from all those Christmas food. Your wife is going to be miserable in any case...:) Best regards Janko -- Janko Mivšek AIDA/Web Smalltalk Web Application Server http://www.aidaweb.si