Re: [agilewiki-wiki] room for more pictures

[Bill la F. <laf...@ya...>]

Hanif,
   
  Sometimes when I think about AW and Rolonics, I say to myself that, gee, these really are not big ideas. But the thing is, they work amazingly well.
   
  AW is really just a programming framework, and everyone hates programming frameworks for very good reasons--they are excessively rigid, in spite of being a powerful programming technique. AW is not rigid.
   
  Do anything software, combining a file server, wiki, email client, spreadsheet, et al, is really really really bad. AW is simply a bit rough, but maturing.
   
  I've been through all the paradygm shifts. Initially we just wrote small snippets of code and, gosh, if they actually worked we put them in libraries. We developed a lot of libraries back in the 60s.
   
  Then we had top-down and goto-less programming in the 70s. Suddenly we had massive applications and no reusable code.
   
  The 80s brought oo, of course, and the dream of reusable components--its holy grail.
   
  In the 90s, we just wrote components--COM and Java Beans--and got our resuable code, but didn't really call it a paradygm shift. We just did it.
   
  So we're due. I think Rolonics is it. And just as oo tried so hard to achieve reusable objects but so often failed, and components were simply reusable objects from the get go, Rolonics lets us easily do things we never thought possible. In a rolonics environment, there aren't distinct applications--all the code just works together.
   
  Hanif, really you are a bright dude to notice this.
   
  Bill
   
  P.S. Some stomach problems today. I was in a meeting yesterday and they served coffee. Perhaps the cup was not so clean. :-(
  

"Hanif Babazadeh(CPU)" <han...@gm...> wrote:
      Bill,
  Therefore I guess I should learn more about the project.
  Maybe AW is not a simple virtual Wiki. Then, we should find an UNDERSTANDABLE way to introduce what it is!
  It is a mail server, it is an infobase, it is an application server, it is a learning project, and most importantly, it still tends to remain a WiKi!!!
  Maybe it is a complicated project. Maybe it is simple.
  I don't know. Just let me consume some time to understand it and then, I'll write my understanding about the whole idea.
  Maybe if it was a commerical product, we couldn't even sell a single license of it. Maybe it is just another revolution in the 21st century, information technology age!
  Personally, I think I have not consumed enough time to know what it is. I'm sorry, it's my fault.
  Just gimme some time, and I'll write back. I don't promise very soon, but I promise that I'll write my experience.
   
  regards,
  -H

 				
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