You can download squeak and play with it on a Windows box without much trouble. I did it a while ago, but I didn't personally like it. Then again, I'm not a 12 year old (no comments about my mental age please, thank you very much :P )
<br><br>Though, if squeak promises to be an easy to use programming interface that can be manipulated easily, that might be an interesting sword frontend regardless. Give the end user the power over what they want their software to do instead of us programmer types.
<br><br><br>I'd like to address the 'connected to the internet' thing a bit. I've been following off and on this project, and while the ad hoc networking and internet connectivity stuff is big, the machines are designed around being something a student can take home and work with.
<br><br>Go to school, download a couple books from the server or your friends, go home and read. That seems to be an important part of the design paradigm. If a student has access to the internet all the time with one of these, then there's no need to do any work as there are plenty of servers out there that provide access to the bible on-line (remember, this thing runs Firefox.)
<br><br>I wouldn't be too concerned about governments/humanists not wanting religious software running on these things. It'll either make its way onto a machine or not depending on if the owner wants it on there (I DO NOT suggest we write a bible launching trojan horse/virus for these things...bad idea..bad bad..)
<br><br>My personal thoughts are that, something like OpenDocument type files be made available of sword modules that can be downloaded. Maybe an output filter for the OpenDocument format can be created. Then there would be the benefit of having files that can be read in a variety of programs.
<br><br>Of course, the disadvantage to doing that would be that we wouldn't get to write code...<br><br>-DJ<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sean Kennedy</b> <<a href="mailto:sean.worker@gmail.com">
sean.worker@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">A Squeaky, sneaky Bible application sounds cool. :-)
<br><br>
<div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 24/04/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Darius Clarke</b> <<a href="mailto:socinian@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">socinian@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:</span>
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><span class="q">Also, the complete IDE is built into the image. All source code for the IDE is included in just one other file. The image is compact since it's just an image of the running memory. The incremental compiler is built into the VM so you can test it and change it ... while it's running.
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