[REBOL] Re: Wildman project - PS3?
From: greg:schofield:iinet:au at: 8-Aug-2007 21:47
Gregg:
Agreed. File systems are including more and more metadata themselves
as well, so I think it's important to consider how people use file
systems today, as opposed to 20 years ago. Also, because REBOL is all
about semantic information exchange, you can consider files to be
a type of persistent
message"; the idea being that messages are
processed and dispatched based on header information, and you could do
the same thing with files."
This is very encouraging. If this logic is taken into the heart of Wildman, then
things are looking very very good.
I am admittedly of a minority position vis a vis current OSes, all I can see
is cumbersome and unnecessary bloat. The OS tends to get in the way far
too much.
Long ago I considered the best course to be a script langauge, used
generally (specifically as application glue) that was also THE DOS
system, placing the graphic end well up the "application" environment.
Maybe REBOL is moving into this gap, and against the tide of bloat.
I live in hope and am feeling the gravitational pull of REBOL.
Greg Schofield
Perth Australia
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From: Gregg Irwin <gregg-pointillistic.com>
To: greg.schofield-iinet.net.au <rebolist-rebol.com>
Reply-To: rebolist-rebol.com
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 07:26:15 -0600
Subject: [REBOL] Re: Wildman project - PS3?
Hi Greg,
gsina> Thanks for your reply Gregg, always it is awkward making a
gsina> first post on a well established and specialist forum.
No need to be shy or awkward here, this is probably the friendliest
community I've ever been a part of.
gsina> The REBOL header is not a bad basis for a file system (or an
gsina> XML version of it). That including a mandatory ID along with a
gsina> Plain English title (a little like URL names and turples),
gsina> might not be a bad move.
Agreed. File systems are including more and more metadata themselves
as well, so I think it's important to consider how people use file
systems today, as opposed to 20 years ago. Also, because REBOL is all
about semantic information exchange, you can consider files to be
a type of persistent "message"; the idea being that messages are
processed and dispatched based on header information, and you could do
the same thing with files.
-- Gregg
