We're having a lot of new "direct" banks in Germany since the internet boom started (believe it or not: late 1998) and they seem to feel the need for more advanced systems that are able to quickly introduce new services, in order to stay On Top. Since these rivals arose, our big & conservative banks seem suddenly beeing urged to use the same systems... mostly object-oriented, Smalltalk or C++ Clients, C++ Servers (occasionally Smalltalk/X) and CORBA for the communication (good for legacy systems integration).
I can Imagine just a handful of companys that could realize systems of this size, apparently this was the main reason to choose Smalltalk, since Smalltalk companies tend to have more experience in *big* object-oriented projects than the others (IMNSHO).
Banks are *far* more modern than you may think, recently there were a lot of presentations of "Object Oriented -System designed and implemented for ". They used all this Y2K *hit to update their systems. The Chrysler Payroll Project (C4) was a similarly sized project (there should be quite some stuff floating around about the technology they used - search for Kent Beck).
Looking at the list of titles available from poso.com, it's all clear to me. Bruce pointed out, that they're selling their products on flea markets - do real companies do this? No!
It fits all together now. When Linus talked about world domination beeing around the corner, he meant the LinuxOne IPO. They are clearly a Mafia company and Linus will be the new Don!
Are you familiar with the works of Alan Kay? He was the guy, who led the Learning Group at Xerox PARC, where Steve Jobs got his ideas from.
Kay's primary idea was, that he would never build a computer, which wasn't usable by a child (see: imagination amplifier).
He developed the idea of an imagination amplifier, a device that would be small and cheap enough that every child could wear one and it would provide an incredible tool for your mind.
Kay is now working at WDI (Walt Disney Imagineering) as a VP of research with most of his core Smalltalk team from PARC, which eventually stopped by at Apple and was strongly involved in the design of the MacOS UI.
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A GUI is an indespensible tool in teaching children what a computer does, but you do not have to use MacOS, there are as well other possibilities, like Squeak Smalltalk (SqC) or LearningWorks (learningworks.neometron.com) if you want to teach children programming.
Both Squeak and Learning Works are based upon Smalltalk, a language that is among the most powerful (if you know The Tricks), but which was initially designed to teach programming to children.
Howard Rheingold's (BTW fouding editor of Hotwired) book Tools for Thought is a really good ressource on this and is available online at rheingold.com. It tells about Babbage, Boole, Turing, Engelbart, Kay, Nelson and many more. It's a must read for everyone interested in our history.
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We're having a lot of new "direct" banks in Germany since the internet boom started (believe it or not: late 1998) and they seem to feel the need for more advanced systems that are able to quickly introduce new services, in order to stay On Top.
Since these rivals arose, our big & conservative banks seem suddenly beeing urged to use the same systems... mostly object-oriented, Smalltalk or C++ Clients, C++ Servers (occasionally Smalltalk/X) and CORBA for the communication (good for legacy systems integration).
I can Imagine just a handful of companys that could realize systems of this size, apparently this was the main reason to choose Smalltalk, since Smalltalk companies tend to have more experience in *big* object-oriented projects than the others (IMNSHO).
Corporate America pays higher salaries - that's the reason for the end of the cold war.
If they don't comply with our standards, let's go and boycott them. Since we're engineers, problem stating isn't just enough.
Banks are *far* more modern than you may think, recently there were a lot of presentations of "Object Oriented -System designed and implemented for ". They used all this Y2K *hit to update their systems.
The Chrysler Payroll Project (C4) was a similarly sized project (there should be quite some stuff floating around about the technology they used - search for Kent Beck).
Looking at the list of titles available from poso.com, it's all clear to me. Bruce pointed out, that they're selling their products on flea markets - do real companies do this? No!
It fits all together now. When Linus talked about world domination beeing around the corner, he meant the LinuxOne IPO. They are clearly a Mafia company and Linus will be the new Don!
Praise Linus, praise LinuxOne!
What restrictions do the business people put on you?
If you've read the manual nobody will knock you. If you just didn't read the manual and call the support, you're Just a Moron. Period.
IMHO:
<soapbox>That depends on what you'd like to teach.
Are you familiar with the works of Alan Kay? He was the guy, who led the Learning Group at Xerox PARC, where Steve Jobs got his ideas from.
Kay's primary idea was, that he would never build a computer, which wasn't usable by a child (see: imagination amplifier).
He developed the idea of an imagination amplifier, a device that would be small and cheap enough that every child could wear one and it would provide an incredible tool for your mind.
Kay is now working at WDI (Walt Disney Imagineering) as a VP of research with most of his core Smalltalk team from PARC, which eventually stopped by at Apple and was strongly involved in the design of the MacOS UI.
</soapbox>A GUI is an indespensible tool in teaching children what a computer does, but you do not have to use MacOS, there are as well other possibilities, like Squeak Smalltalk (SqC) or LearningWorks (learningworks.neometron.com) if you want to teach children programming.
Both Squeak and Learning Works are based upon Smalltalk, a language that is among the most powerful (if you know The Tricks), but which was initially designed to teach programming to children.
Howard Rheingold's (BTW fouding editor of Hotwired) book Tools for Thought is a really good ressource on this and is available online at rheingold.com. It tells about Babbage, Boole, Turing, Engelbart, Kay, Nelson and many more. It's a must read for everyone interested in our history.