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198 <div class="row"><div class="col-md-9"><h1 class="title">Sixth - system for data storage, computation, exploration and interaction</h1>
200 <div id="outline-container-sec-1" class="outline-2">
201 <h2 id="sec-1"><span class="section-number-2">1</span> General</h2>
202 <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-1">
204 <li>This program is free software: released under Creative Commons Zero
210 <li>Svjatoslav Agejenko
212 <li>Homepage: <a href="https://svjatoslav.eu">https://svjatoslav.eu</a>
214 <li>Email: <a href="mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu">mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu</a>
219 <li><a href="https://www.svjatoslav.eu/projects/">Other software projects hosted at svjatoslav.eu</a>
224 <div id="outline-container-sec-1-1" class="outline-3">
225 <h3 id="sec-1-1"><span class="section-number-3">1.1</span> Source code</h3>
226 <div class="outline-text-3" id="text-1-1">
228 <li>Note - Sixth is currently empty parent/shell project. You can find
229 working code under <a href="#sec-4">sub-projects</a>.
232 <li><a href="https://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=sixth.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz">Download latest snapshot in TAR GZ format</a>
235 <li><a href="https://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=sixth.git;a=summary">Browse Git repository online</a>
238 <li>Clone Git repository using command:
239 <pre class="example">
240 git clone https://www2.svjatoslav.eu/git/sixth.git
248 <div id="outline-container-sec-2" class="outline-2">
249 <h2 id="sec-2"><a id="ID-1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f" name="ID-1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f"></a><span class="section-number-2">2</span> Vision - A tool to amplify human ability</h2>
250 <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-2">
252 Goal is, so called bicycle for the mind.
256 A tool, that provides powerful, extensible, adaptable, hackable, easy
257 to use, general purpose computing environment for working with
262 <a href="#sec-2-1">See extensible, programmable computing environment examples</a>.
266 I would like to create better general purpose computing environment
267 with the following priorities:
271 <li>Makes data and insights easy to discover, understand, manipulate,
272 transform and visualize.
275 <li>Workflow and user interface is intuitive, visual, realtime,
280 “Virtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mind”
281 Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
286 <li>Computations are done primarily in <a href="https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-data/">on versioned data in distributed,
287 scalable, arbitrary dimensional hypercube based geometrical
288 computation engine</a>.
298 <li>Easily switch devices and still access same data, workspaces and
301 <li>Easily access and combine storage and computing resources of
302 other connected devices.
307 <li>Ability to collaborate (multi user).
314 <div id="outline-container-sec-2-1" class="outline-3">
315 <h3 id="sec-2-1"><a id="ID-c19c5a3b-dfb0-4f7f-961c-a387b925669f" name="ID-c19c5a3b-dfb0-4f7f-961c-a387b925669f"></a><span class="section-number-3">2.1</span> Extensible, programmable computing environment examples</h3>
316 <div class="outline-text-3" id="text-2-1">
318 <li><a href="https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/04/27/one-program-to-rule-them-all/">GNU Emacs</a> - At the heart, Emacs is text editor on top of Lisp
319 runtime. Data storage and computation can be done in <a href="https://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html">Lisp</a>. Lisp is
320 on itself programmable programming language where new paradigms can
321 be added dynamically. Domain specific languages to fit particular
322 problem could be developed as needed and Emacs extended to support
323 those languages. Emacs provides text buffers that can be used to
324 build user interfaces. So you can customize Emacs and Lisp to fit
328 <li><a href="https://www.eclipse.org/ide/">Eclipse IDE</a> - In essence <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSGi">OSGi</a> platform with a text
329 editor. Computation done in java. Eclipse provides integration,
330 runtime and GUI platform. One can develop Eclipse plugins to add
331 necessary logic and visual parts to fit any problem. (IntelliJ and
332 NetBeans have similar properties)
335 <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Notes">IBM Notes/Domino</a> - Custom database engine, software development
336 platform, GUI editor, computation can be done in Java and
337 LotusScript. You can build distributed business applications on it
341 <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABAP">SAP ABAP</a> - Custom database engine, runtime, GUI platform,
342 development environment and programming language. Is being used as a
343 platform to build business applications with any logic and UI.
346 <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Access">Microsoft Access</a> - Database management system that combines
347 relational database engine with a graphical user interface and
348 software-development tools.
354 <div id="outline-container-sec-3" class="outline-2">
355 <h2 id="sec-3"><span class="section-number-2">3</span> Current status</h2>
356 <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-3">
358 <li>Formulated high-level <a href="#sec-2">vision / goal</a>.
361 <li>In the process of implementing some of <a href="#sec-4">building blocks</a>.
364 <li>System is nowhere near complete (given magnitude of effort required
365 and almost non-existent free time available). Contributions are
371 <div id="outline-container-sec-4" class="outline-2">
372 <h2 id="sec-4"><a id="ID-52dbbf4c-2ef4-42a6-8331-ad006b6a52ae" name="ID-52dbbf4c-2ef4-42a6-8331-ad006b6a52ae"></a><span class="section-number-2">4</span> Architecture / components</h2>
373 <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-4">
375 <li><a href="https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth/">Sixth</a> - Parent project.
377 <li><a href="https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-data/">Sixth Data</a> - Data storage and computation engine.
379 <li><a href="https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/">Sixth 3D</a> - 3D engine - for user interface and data visualization.
381 <li><a href="https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d-demos/">Sixth 3D engine demos</a> - Demonstration of Sixth 3D engine capabilities.
391 <div id="outline-container-sec-5" class="outline-2">
392 <h2 id="sec-5"><span class="section-number-2">5</span> Frequently Given Answers</h2>
393 <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-5">
397 <li>In short: it's just a number.
399 <li>Many years ago inspired by the ideas of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)">Forth (programming
400 language)</a> I decided to create my own implementation <a href="https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/fifth/">Fifth</a>
401 (computing/programming environment).
403 <li>Forth/Fifth felt a bit too low-level language. So current
404 project/approach is an attempt using Java.
411 </div><div class="col-md-3"><nav id="table-of-contents">
412 <div id="text-table-of-contents" class="bs-docs-sidebar">
414 <li><a href="#sec-1">1. General</a>
416 <li><a href="#sec-1-1">1.1. Source code</a></li>
419 <li><a href="#sec-2">2. Vision - A tool to amplify human ability</a>
421 <li><a href="#sec-2-1">2.1. Extensible, programmable computing environment examples</a></li>
424 <li><a href="#sec-3">3. Current status</a></li>
425 <li><a href="#sec-4">4. Architecture / components</a></li>
426 <li><a href="#sec-5">5. Frequently Given Answers</a></li>
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432 <div><p class="author">Author: Svjatoslav Agejenko</p>
433 <p class="date">Created: 2020-04-20 Mon 22:24</p>
434 <p class="creator"><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">Emacs</a> 26.1 (<a href="http://orgmode.org">Org-mode</a> 9.1.9)</p>