[Cuis] Rosario Conference Query

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Folks,

On 11/3/2013 1:23 PM, Ken Dickey wrote:
> Juan&  Germán,
>
> Speaking for those of us unable to attend Rosario, if you have time it would be pleasant to read some notes of the conference on what you found of interest.  Any special "buzz"?
>
> Germán, could you give a brief synopsis of your demo?
>
> Inquiring minds..
> -KenD

Unfortunately I was at Rosario only for a very brief time. I could only 
attend to the Friday afternoon talks. Next year I'll try to attend the 
whole conference...

The one I enjoyed the most was Leandro's wonderful keynote on where 
ideas come from, and how to make them 'appear'. It was deeply inspiring.

I also enjoyed Martin McClure's talk about Mist. I think Mist is an 
important experiment, and will teach us a lot. The main idea is replace 
inheritance with class composition (something like stateful traits), and 
use this new feature to model both 'is a' and 'has a' relations. This, 
together with some changes to our concepts of 'self' and 'super' make up 
for a different programming experience. Time will tell (I hope), if this 
eases overall development and maintenance easier or not.

My talk had two parts. The first one was about the possibility of having 
a real Dynabook for us, and the reasons for starting Cuis, a few years 
ago. The second part was a quick overview of some of the tasks I used 
Cuis for at Satellogic, mainly image processing stuff. I'll publish the 
slides soon, when I find a couple of hours to prepare them. (yes, I 
guess I should have done that *before* the talk, not afterwards... :)

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich