[Edu-sig] FYI: PataPata postmortem link

[David Boddie]

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:20:51 -0800, Dethe Elza wrote: 
 
>Oberon, Self, and Hypercard allowed you to get "behind" the widgets   
>to see the code they would invoke, and the code that created them.    
>HTML and the current desktop-widget tools do this too.  It requires   
>some additional work on the UI framework to support this, but a UI   
>that was built from Python or XML should be able to support it. 
 
Depending on what you mean by "the code they would invoke", I think 
that may be a bit too much detail for some people. A high-level view 
would be interesting, though. 
 
>Interestingly enough, Stackless Python can do this now.  You can   
>create "tasklets" which are lightweight processes that can be   
>serialized, sent over a network, restarted, and communicate with each   
>other. 
 
Yes, that's interesting to know. I had something like that in mind, but I 
don't have any experience of Stackless Python. 
 
>[rest of dicussion snipped.  Interesting, but I don't have anything   
>to add] 
 
And I don't really have time to contribute to such a deep discussion, 
no matter how interesting it is. :-( 
 
David