Re: A possible application of Xanalogical technology

[Jeff Rush <jrush@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It may be difficult to get Nelson's ideas accepted by them as

a) they probably already have their own ideas/approach

b) Nelson's ideas are hard to grok, requiring a steep learning curve for 
which they may not have time

If Nelson's ideas were clearly written up in a nice, hardback book they 
could distribute around their team, it might work, but alas, no such 
book exists.  The ideas are in the C, Smalltalk and X languages, pieces 
of which aren't all found.  Lots of digging... with some cool gems, but 
not everyone has the patience/detail-orientation to be an archaeologist.

-Jeff

Don Dwiggins wrote:
> Mitch Kapor, of Lotus Agenda fame, has started a new project to create an
> open source information manager (code named Chandler), both for personal and
> group data.  The project's web site is osafoundation.org.  One aspect of all
> this is a good document storage and management system.  I've proposed (on
> the design mailing list) that they look into Nelson's ideas, but there was
> no reply, so I don't know if my suggestions took.
>
> I'm posting here in case someone from this community might want to join the
> developer's list for Chandler and (re)present the "Xanadu point of view".
>
> Best regards from a perpetual Xanadu dilettante,