1 #+TITLE: Sixth - system for data storage, computation, exploration and interaction
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14 - This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
15 it under the terms of the [[https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html][GNU Lesser General Public License]] as
16 published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
17 License, or (at your option) any later version.
21 - Homepage: https://svjatoslav.eu
22 - Email: mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu
24 - [[https://www.svjatoslav.eu/projects/][Other software projects hosted at svjatoslav.eu]]
27 + Note - Sixth is currently empty parent/shell project. You can find
28 working code under [[id:52dbbf4c-2ef4-42a6-8331-ad006b6a52ae][sub-projects]].
30 - [[https://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=sixth.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz][Download latest snapshot in TAR GZ format]]
32 - [[https://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=sixth.git;a=summary][Browse Git repository online]]
34 - Clone Git repository using command:
35 : git clone https://www2.svjatoslav.eu/git/sixth.git
36 * Vision - A tool to amplify human ability
38 :ID: 1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f
40 Goal is, so called bicycle for the mind.
42 A tool, that provides powerful, extensible, adaptable, hackable, easy
43 to use, general purpose computing environment for working with
46 [[id:c19c5a3b-dfb0-4f7f-961c-a387b925669f][See extensible, programmable computing environment examples]].
48 I would like to create better general purpose computing environment
49 with the following priorities:
51 + Makes data and insights easy to discover, understand, manipulate,
52 transform and visualize.
54 + Workflow and user interface is intuitive, visual, realtime,
58 “Virtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mind”
59 Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
62 + Computations are done primarily in [[https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-data/][on versioned data in distributed,
63 scalable, arbitrary dimensional hypercube based geometrical
70 + Easily switch devices and still access same data, workspaces and
72 + Easily access and combine storage and computing resources of
73 other connected devices.
75 + Ability to collaborate (multi user).
77 ** Extensible, programmable computing environment examples
79 :ID: c19c5a3b-dfb0-4f7f-961c-a387b925669f
81 + [[https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/04/27/one-program-to-rule-them-all/][GNU Emacs]] - At the heart, Emacs is text editor on top of Lisp
82 runtime. Data storage and computation can be done in [[https://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html][Lisp]]. Lisp is
83 on itself programmable programming language where new paradigms can
84 be added dynamically. Domain specific languages to fit particular
85 problem could be developed as needed and Emacs extended to support
86 those languages. Emacs provides text buffers that can be used to
87 build user interfaces. So you can customize Emacs and Lisp to fit
90 + [[https://www.eclipse.org/ide/][Eclipse IDE]] - In essence [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSGi][OSGi]] platform with a text
91 editor. Computation done in java. Eclipse provides integration,
92 runtime and GUI platform. One can develop Eclipse plugins to add
93 necessary logic and visual parts to fit any problem. (IntelliJ and
94 NetBeans have similar properties)
96 + [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Notes][IBM Notes/Domino]] - Custom database engine, software development
97 platform, GUI editor, computation can be done in Java and
98 LotusScript. You can build distributed business applications on it
101 + [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABAP][SAP ABAP]] - Custom database engine, runtime, GUI platform,
102 development environment and programming language. Is being used as a
103 platform to build business applications with any logic and UI.
105 + [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Access][Microsoft Access]] - Database management system that combines
106 relational database engine with a graphical user interface and
107 software-development tools.
109 + Formulated high-level [[id:1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f][vision / goal]].
111 + In the process of implementing some of [[id:52dbbf4c-2ef4-42a6-8331-ad006b6a52ae][building blocks]].
113 + System is nowhere near complete (given magnitude of effort required
114 and almost non-existent free time available). Contributions are
116 * Architecture / components
118 :ID: 52dbbf4c-2ef4-42a6-8331-ad006b6a52ae
120 + [[https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth/][Sixth]] - Parent project.
121 + [[https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-data/][Sixth Data]] - Data storage and computation engine.
122 + [[https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/][Sixth 3D]] - 3D engine - for user interface and data visualization.
123 + [[https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d-demos/][Sixth 3D engine demos]] - Demonstration of Sixth 3D engine capabilities.
125 * Frequently Given Answers
127 - In short: it's just a number.
128 - Many years ago inspired by the ideas of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)][Forth (programming
129 language)]] I decided to create my own implementation [[https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/fifth/][Fifth]]
130 (computing/programming environment).
131 - Forth/Fifth felt a bit too low-level language. So current
132 project/approach is an attempt using Java.