From Kansas to Oz: collaborative debugging when a shared world breaks

From Kansas to Oz: collaborative debugging when a shared world breaks

Some collaborative virtual environments do allow their users to "program." For example, LambdaMOO at Xerox PARC allows users to make new kinds of objects with new behaviors. In Kansas, a system explored here, one goes much further. Nearly anything can be reprogrammed by the virtual Kansans...

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Veröffentlicht in:Communications of the ACM 1997-04, Vol.40 (4), p.72-78
Hauptverfasser: Smith, Randall B, Wolczko, Mario, Ungar, David
Format: Magazinearticle
Sprache:eng
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Collaboration
Computer programming
Debugging
Multiuser systems
Physics
Programmers
Virtual networks
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Zusammenfassung:Some collaborative virtual environments do allow their users to "program." For example, LambdaMOO at Xerox PARC allows users to make new kinds of objects with new behaviors. In Kansas, a system explored here, one goes much further. Nearly anything can be reprogrammed by the virtual Kansans, including the computations that display objects and the mechanisms underlying arithmetic. Indeed, Kansas is a multi-user programming environment for the Self language from which it is built.
ISSN:0001-0782
1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/248448.248461