The quality (and apparent sincerity) of your reply merit a full inhaling of your 2 references. I'm off to Amazon as soon as I finish typing this.
"The idea being that you could focus on business processes without thinking about implementation details."
Bingo! In 18 months of sharing this concept, I think you may have closest to understanding it (or at least explaining your understanding).
"Then I discovered I hate running a business, not just dis-like but hate so much I never want to do it again :-("
I may be the yin for your yang. I can't wait to have a business to run and customers to serve! Seeing a customer achieve their goals with my support is like oxygen to me. I have to have it. I love hacking, but it's only a means to an end. If I had something to implement, I'd be implementing, not hacking.
Kindly put your email address on your profile and stay in touch.
I'm in the same boat as ajmoir. I thought of implementing is as a DSL for businesses - let the "tigers" specify it in the DSL and then the implementation can be upgraded underneath the definition. Naturally, Lisp would be a good fit. I do enjoy the success of seeing customers achieve goals, but I prefer the tractability of engineering systems over the political systems of the real world. I'd certainly love to hack for businesses if there was a thin wrapper over them (ie business oriented cofounder). I've already emailed you expressing interest in your project, so keep me in mind too!
I haven't read naked objects - maybe that would help me get over my general distrust of OO. Thanks for the recommendation!
"The idea being that you could focus on business processes without thinking about implementation details."
Bingo! In 18 months of sharing this concept, I think you may have closest to understanding it (or at least explaining your understanding).
"Then I discovered I hate running a business, not just dis-like but hate so much I never want to do it again :-("
I may be the yin for your yang. I can't wait to have a business to run and customers to serve! Seeing a customer achieve their goals with my support is like oxygen to me. I have to have it. I love hacking, but it's only a means to an end. If I had something to implement, I'd be implementing, not hacking.
Kindly put your email address on your profile and stay in touch.