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Installer: Axum is an incubation project from Microsoft’s Parallel Computing Platform that aims to validate a safe and productive parallel programming model for the .NET framework. It’s a language that builds upon the architecture of the web and the principles of isolation, actors, and message-passing to increase application safety, responsiveness, scalability and developer productivity. Other advanced concepts we are exploring are data flow networks, asynchronous methods, and type annotations for taming side-effects. Programmer's Guide: Use this simple and easy to follow programmer's guide to learn how to create safe, scalable, and responsive applications with the Axum language. Language Specification: A detailed specification of the Axum language.

2) If you are BIG fan of dynamics languages (closures, meta programming, and all that cool stuff) then consider giving Smalltalk a look.  You might like what you see.  Its like Ruby but with bigger muscles.  You think Rails is cool? Check out seaside. In the end we’ll see a up tick in Smalltalk momentum over the next few years. 

Please don’t talk about Smalltalk. I enjoy my competitive advantage over the Java/NET crowd

Where Smalltalk really shines recently is in field of web applications due to its dynamic nature (live upgrading, debugging etc.) and because its shortcoming are not relevant here.

The MainDemo sample is a simple WinForm application that showcases all the functions that are expose via the API, including building a jump list with custom categories and custom tasks, setting an overlay icon and progress bar, and creating and handling events from Thumbnail Toolbar buttons:

too many ways to develop for Symbian devices: native code, WRT (web run-time) widgets, Java, browser-apps, etc.

5-9 clicks just to add a calendar item.

disjointed software updating -- which requires a Windows PC in older Nokia devices -- that leaves many North American users without fixes to serious issues for all but the most popular of handsets.

The web browser is a good example, on a pc it may make sense to ask a user to find, click, type, and browse the web or look for a service. In a mobile, converged product, you need to help the user be present with the service even or especially when they are driving or have the product in a pocket or handbag, and requiring them to constantly select 'yes' or to type in forms etc. are real headaches for a consumer.

We will not provide a store front, but will help the community create multiple online stores from which they can generate revenue for themselves and the developer.

At the other end of the spectrum, you see hoards of teenagers in the U.S., Europe and Asia happily texting one handed, using predictive text.

The industry stewards have countered Apple's move with their own application stores, so there's a huge opportunity to write the "killer app" for one of several smartphone platforms.

40 MB to less than 4 MB of free RAM

one-app-at-a-time requirement complicates any implementation of a copy-and-paste mechanism.

   April 26th 2009 1.3.5 Pending Approval

iSqueak: Squeak for (i)Touch Devices (Squeak) wins 3rd Place in the ESUG Innovation Awards Here's a video of iSqueak in action∞ Here's a audio track discussing the iSqueak development∞

In this regard, SymbianOS may have a leg up on Apple's App Store and even Nokia's Ovi Store, in that the "Symbian Application Inventory" will be free for developers. That's what you call "incentive," but is it enough?