Overview
Never underestimate the power of programming:
- Spreadsheets.
- Databases/4GLs.
- Unix shells, emacs, etc.
What would it take to program the Internet?
- Why current approaches won't work.
- Solution: universal scripting language, executable content.
- Tcl and Tk.
- Security issues: Safe-Tcl.
- Other approaches: Telescript, Visual Basic, Java.
- Why today's OS'es will become irrelevant.