{"id":21379,"date":"2018-04-29T15:16:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T19:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21379"},"modified":"2021-05-20T11:05:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T15:05:38","slug":"30-years-of-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/29\/30-years-of-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Years of Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave Winer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

My goal was to create an environment<\/a> I would work in for the rest of my career. I just realized it’s exactly 30 years later, <\/i>and I’m still using it.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Now that I also work in JavaScript, it amazes me how easy the simple things are in Frontier<\/a>, compared to JS, esp when you have to tack on a database. You really have to work at seeing what’s going on. In Frontier, you just click around expanding things. You can even look at the runtime stack that way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

If you never used Frontier, it’s hard to explain what made it so special. My very favorite thing about Frontier is the “object database”. It wasn’t like using a database in the SQL sense. It was just persistent storage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

James Thomson<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

Douglas Adams asked me to add support for running Frontier scripts in DragThing about twenty years ago, and I did, because he was Douglas Adams.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Hamish Sanderson<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

Automatic props to @mattneub, whose Frontier, The Definitive Guide<\/em> is published online here<\/a> for those that’d like to learn more[…]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

It’s an excellent book.<\/p>\n\n

Brent Simmons<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

For the past few days I’ve been working on adding Frontier-like object database<\/a> (ODB) support to my database framework<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously: Congratulations<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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