🚀 go-pugleaf

Fellow OOPers,
 
This is getting pretty confusing: Bedrock, Component Workshop, Dylan, OOPC,
Camelot, Galaxy, CLOS, Smalltalk (the language that refuses to die!), and who
knows how many others?  A year ago, choosing a framework was easy.  A year or
two from now it may be easy again, since these products cannot each keep a
large enough market share to prosper.  But right now it's sheer chaos.  Which
leads to the following idea: with the MADA conference coming up in February,
how about an evening session devoted to emerging frameworks and development
environments?  Get as many vendors as possible on the stage at the same time
and give them a set of specific topics to address so that it doesn't become a
group sales pitch.  Make sure there is plenty of time for Q&A.  Invite the
press (e.g., JOOP and Object Magazine).  I can't think of any way for MADA to
better serve the interests of its members this year, nor a better forum for
vendors to receive critical feedback about how their products stack up from one
of the most literate and business-saavy OOP groups in the industry.
 
If this is already being done, please excuse the link.  If not, count me a
volunteer to help bring it about.
 
With best holiday wishes to all,
Jeff Alger
SBM International