<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On 9 Feb 2014, at 10:05 am, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. <<a href="mailto:jecel@merlintec.com">jecel@merlintec.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto;"><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; position: relative;"><div id="ygrp-msg" style="line-height: 1.22em; z-index: 1;"><div id="ygrp-text" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Georgia;"><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">David Ungar wrote:<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">> If you are interested, see the talk Harold Ossher and I gave<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">> at SPLASH this past fall.<br style="line-height: 1.22em;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em;">Russell Allen wrote:<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">> This one? <a href="http://www.infoq.com/presentations/oop-language-context">http://www.infoq.com/presentations/oop-language-context</a><br style="line-height: 1.22em;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em;">Thanks for the link. I was very glad to see a language name that is easy<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">to search for (Korz) compared to Smalltalk, Self or Us. This is a<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">research area which I find very interesting. Programming in the Slate<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">language had a bit of the same flavor and the "worlds" work being done<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">by Alan Kay's group is closely related (though viewpoints are bundled<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">together like nested transactions). Even Ian Piumarta's "Quantum Object<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">Dynamics" speculations are related to this.<br style="line-height: 1.22em;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em;"><a href="http://slatelanguage.org/documentation/">http://slatelanguage.org/documentation/</a><br style="line-height: 1.22em;">http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011001_final_worlds.pdf<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2009002_qod.pdf<br style="line-height: 1.22em;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em;"></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>I never really played with Slate though I read its docs. It was a bit CLOS-like?</div><div><br></div><div>Korz in comparison seems to retain more of the feeling of late binding, though maybe that's a misremembering.</div><div><br></div><div>Korz also still privileges the object/selector axis, with other aspects secondary ('context').</div><div><br></div><div>Ian's earlier stuff with COLA seemed to be playing in the same space not by reifying context but by reifying the dispatch mechanism. Maybe that's a dynamism step too far though.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote><div>Russell</div></div></body></html>