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I have definitely found that electric vehicle companies advertise very sound and realistic figures for their mileage. My personal case is a Zero motorcycle, but I've heard confirma…

I am a Kinesis Advantage user with ten years' experience, and agree with this. I did buy a pre-made Atreus kit and have been playing with it. For a portable/compact solution, it is…

It would be good to tackle multiple-promises-dependencies that the when()/all() protocols achieve, compared to then().

Hum. I hear you. I've tracked demos come and go with their hype and lack of delivery. Are they fads, though, inherently, or because of a lack of cultural and financial support? I l…

I've heard of NQP but haven't dug into it. I suppose you could, but I'd estimate the effort as higher than for say Rubinius which has been tracking a Smalltalk model since its ince…

Yeah, Fortress had a lot of good ideas that we were looking at. We toyed with a way to render and enter unicode operator characters using angle tag notation a la " ". The whitespac…

A little bit of both; I'll skip unfamiliarity and get to the awkwardness. Smalltalk lexical style makes certain kinds of notational customizations difficult to compose. I want mult…

Well, I'd like to explore a link-phase to build images. I think that'd be really quite interesting and might break up the monolith and mix Smalltalk ideas in with Unix as they ough…

UI research and development stopped dead in its tracks in the early 90s, and most people who've developed UIs now effectively think a whole class of problems are not solvable or ev…

Damn, that's new to me. He resisted joining github until recently, it seems...

Sure. My email is my username at gmail.

I will say that I'm not done yet; I fully intend to build a practical system that hands the lessons of FoNC to the everyday context. I've learned a lot over the years and tried my …

I was perverted by AutoLISP and CADForth in the very early 90's. By 1995 I was in college and researching on my own, found Self and Squeak and made a rather stupid but fun little l…

Clojure deserves a lot of respect for attacking concurrency in a totally new way, but I would not call it mainstream. Homoiconicity is overrated; Atomo and Atomy represented better…

Images are like filesystems or sandboxes, by the way. They just need better tool support.

I know Steve Dekorte and remember him bringing me along to visit David Ungar over beer and pizza more than a decade ago. :) Io doesn't quite address the goals I wanted, and it was …

You'll never regret it, and although every language is ultimately worth criticizing, it's worth having a project of your own to refine or learn from.

See also Atomo: http://vito.github.io/atomo/ And Atomy: http://vito.github.io/atomy/ Both of these, I feel, are interesting small offshoots that explore more in a pattern-matching …

I guess I should say that we built a type system in Slate using objects and multimethods; it was used for metaprogramming and self-hosting. Obviously not ideal, but we leaned in th…

I don't feel motivated to work on it (this particular artifact) any more. I want to make something relevant to and appreciated by an audience, and programmer culture seems to be un…

I wish Lee were still around. I miss working with him and appreciate him putting up with me.

So, there's something about that that is true, but we weren't aiming for this per se. We wanted to make the idea of a programming world as an OS manifest, so Slate images and objec…

I actually had a big vision to merge Morphic into the CLIM/DUIM tradition from Lisp and Dylan. I was very inspired by Lisp Machines, and still own one to run an emulation for for d…

Ohai. I'm one of the authors. Thanks for noticing this, but we did wind down the project several years ago after failing to bootstrap it into what we wanted it to be. Main regrets:…

You should be aware that there was a site like this in 2006 called Standpoint, partly by Gentry Underwood of Mailbox. It also allowed for structural replies and disagreements. Refe…