[Laszlo-dev] Introductions on the laszlo-dev list

[Oliver Steele]

Hi all!

I'm Oliver Steele.  I've been with Laszlo since late 2001.  I work 
especially on the language design, the compiler, and developer tools 
such as the debugger design and the Krank feature.  I also work for the 
doc guy, and vice versa.  I'm interested in programming languages and 
in graphics libraries, so I'm pretty happy hear where I get to do some 
of each.  I've worked on a few open source projects before, but I never 
thought I could afford to do it full time :-)

Henry Minsky, John Sundman, P T Withington, and I are the Boston 
development team.  Two of us worked for Symbolics, two of us worked at 
Curl, and two of us worked on Dylan (but not the same two!), so we're 
mostly dynamic language compiler and runtime guys.  Two of us juggle 
too :-)

To Bryan: I sometimes feel intimidated because I'm not a designer.  One 
thing I like about Laszlo Systems is that designers are first-class 
citizens too; I'm hoping we can extend this to the Laszlo developer 
community too.  I'm excited about the idea of a visual editor because 
it would open up the platform for more designers.

I'm also excited about getting our work into the hands of people who 
like it, instead of just those who already have a targeted project that 
can justify paying the $$ for a server license.  I look forward to 
helping anyone who cares to understand enough of the architecture of 
the system to do what they want with it.

I'm on the web at http://osteele.com.

Best,
Oliver