[News] Ten Answers with Fleecy Moss! | ANN.lu |
Posted on 15-Mar-2003 16:43 GMT by MIB | 155 comments View flat View list |
8 Days ahead of schedule! The first ever Q&A With Fleecy Moss is now available over at AmigaWorld.net
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Posted by Alex Klauke on 17-Mar-2003 06:34 GMT | In reply to Comment 57 (Don Cox): > (Personally, I though the Tao stuff, which is neat technology in its own
> right, was a good idea 3 years ago. I changed my mind: it isn't going to work.
I like the idea yet. And I agree with you to the extent that intent would not
work as the sole foundation of a new OS. So yes, I changed my mind too that
it is not the right way to exchange AmigaOS/Exec w/ intent, but for it being
an addition to the platform, just like ARexx was (is).
> Amiga technology, to be successful, has to be a combination of cross-platform
> standards like the C language, and native Amiga development, as is being done
> by the IBrowse and Hyperion teams. Licensing other people's stuff or porting
> from Linux is no good.
Fully agree here. The platform needs a solid technical base and a good set of
standard tools and applications. This is what we (will) get through the
subsequent releases of OS4 and developers porting to (from OS3.x/68k) and
enhancing on by utilizing the additional features Hyperion provides with it.
But, to be successful, that is _grow_, AmigaOS needs to distinguish itself
from other OS's. It's library model, Datatypes and ARexx are those parts of
the past and present, AmigaDE could be (the) one of and for the future. After
all i(nten)t does nothing more than to provide "cross-platform standards like
the C language" (and C++, Eiffel, Java..) but also is 'cross-platform' by
definition. In a very similar way ReXX was to be a cross-platform scripting
standard once.
Porting from Linux and licensing "other people's stuff" can only work if it
is adapted to the Amiga programming model to make the apps "Amiga native".
Things like KHTML may be used as starting points rather than start developement
from scratch, but they can (have to) be enhanced to be truly Amiga-ish.
Straight porting w/o using any of the features of AmigaOS would not be a good
thing. But it will be some time until the Amiga platform can yet again be the
starting point for development of new kinds of applications. ('stand on its own
feet' that is).
> But this is much clearer now than it was 4 years ago.)
Everything gets clearer as time goes by. Except London fog.. ;-)
Ciao, Alex |
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