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On 11/14/2011 6:05 PM, Stefan Reich wrote: [
"Transitive mobility", then, is defined as the ability to move between computers more than once per script invocation.

(Note: There may be mobile agent frameworks for multiple languages listed above; but if they exist, they don't seem to be in widespread use. So it seems they are either too complicated, too heavy-weight or not practically usable for other reasons. I am very open for counterexamples if there are any!)

So it seems that Lua, with the advent of Mobile Lua, is now the only popular language offering full code mobility.

Question is: Are people aware of the advantages of code mobility? Are you aware? If not, what would it need for you to understand these advantages?

I have different ideas on how to demonstrate the possibilities of a mobile Lua - but I thought I'd check with you guys first to see if you have anything to say on this. I really hope that this list will prove a positive place and not one of "I want to criticize so I can bring you down".

-- Stefan

PS: Of course, the primary question for any new technology always is: Can it do porn? =) (I'll leave the answer to the readers, for now. =)

I don't know if this qualifies for what your trying to do or not but, you don't mention Smalltalk. :)

Smalltalk is different from all of the languages mentioned. All code is loaded into a running system. Code is updated, edited, modified live.

One interesting project for Pharo Smalltalk is Fuel. Fuel is an object serializer. It can serialize running code that has opened a debugger window. Open the serialized code in a new image and continue debugging the running code.

http://www.pharo-project.org/
http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Fuel

I don't know if either Smalltalk or Fuel are doing what you are looking at doing. But take a look and see what they are doing and may find some body going the same direction or may some interesting ideas.

Jimmie

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