Clipboards + Meaning

[David E. Manifold]

On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Jano John Akim Franke wrote:

> I would say that storing by meaning the right way but important is this:
> 
> << The storage of data by its meaning makes the data useful
> _everywhere_that_understands_the_meaning, instead of anywhere that
> understands the form (format). >>

Tunes is the mechanism that allows parts of the system to share a common
meaning.  It also will translate from the Tunes common meaning to external
systems.

As Fare said in "Challenges for the HLL," one difficulty for Tunes is to
find the shared meaning between vastly different programming models.

David E. Manifold
tril@bespin.ml.org