[self-interest] Re: Uses of self

[David Ungar]

My pleasure. Yes, Korz. Glad you like the name.

Thanks for looking at the slides.

Not sure if or where Self is used today.

You are welcome,

- David (from iPad, typos likely)

> On Mar 8, 2014, at 6:21 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle <spdegabrielle at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks David, 
> 
> Is the (hopefully) next great language called Korz? (great name by the way)
> 
> I started reading the slides for the SPASH presentation, but stopped when I got out of my depth. (I think I need to do a little background reading on AOP).
> 
> I'm still keen to find out where it is used for teaching, education & industry. I suspect it is, but in much the same was as the Lisps/Schemes/Rackets are 'secret alien technology' (barski).
> 
> Thanks again for taking the time to respond.
> 
> Kind regards, 
> 
> Stephen
> 
> 
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>> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 6:07 PM, David Ungar <ungar at me.com> wrote:
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>> Glad you like Self. I get more email than I have time to read, and I'm lucky to be busy inventing the next great language (I hope), so you won't hear much from me.
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>> I am prototyping it in Self.
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>> (If you are curious, there is a recording of a talk Harold Ossher & I gave last fall at SPLASH (SPLASH-i) on the new language.)
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>> - David
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>>> On Mar 7, 2014, at 9:38 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle <spdegabrielle at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>  
>>> Thanks.
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>>> From the deafening silence I guess no one else monitors the list.
>>> 
>>> Stephen
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>>>> On Thursday, 6 March 2014, ardeujho <ardeujho at cd.pn> wrote:
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>>>> 
>>>> I mostly use it for prototyping and trying out ideas. I also use it as 'system shell' in that I create one-off morphs and programs in the UI to do tasks. I run the UI in fullscreen under Ubuntu in a workspace so I can switch to standard Unix shells easily as well.
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>>>>> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014, at 01:25 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote:
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>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi, 
>>>>>  
>>>>> How is Self currently being used?
>>>>>  
>>>>> I saw the SPLASH video by Ossher and Ungar(2013) so it is clearly being used by at least one team for PL research. Are there any others?
>>>>>  
>>>>> Is it see for teaching?
>>>>>  
>>>>> Is it used for K-12 education? 
>>>>>  
>>>>> Is it used in industry?
>>>>>  
>>>>> Finally - Where are the users? Europe? USA? Australia? elsewhere?
>>>>>  
>>>>> I am frankly stunned by this amazing language. I've often seen mentions of it indicating how influential it was. (and not just to javascript)
>>>>>  
>>>>> Kind regards, 
>>>>>  
>>>>> Stephen
>>>>>  
>>>>> --
>>>>> Stephen De Gabrielle
>>>>>  
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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>>> 
>>> -- 
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