Sunday, December 22, 2002

Flying. On a plane to Ottawa, knocking out some additional stuff in my book. It's slow progress, but hey, Graham Glass' zinger about making 250k off of his Unix book has me getting back to work! It's going to be a strange book. In the opener I admit freely that it's a book of questions, not a book of answers. There's a new kind of system out there that we need to build -- it's a system that goes beyond objects. Beyond Objects is the title of the book. It's about knowledge, rule-systems, aspect-oriented programming, distributed fact bases, and the kinds of things you can build with them. I hope to get at the heart of why it's so difficult to build large-scale classic OO systems, and so hard to get some of the basic stuff right with them. 1:45:51 PM