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<https://instadeq.com/blog/posts/past-futures-of-programming-general-magic-telescript/|Past Futures of Programming: General Magic's Telescript>:

&gt; Telescript was a programming language developed by General Magic in the nineties that allow the first generation of mobile devices to interact with services in a network.
&gt; This sounds similar to the way smartphones work today, but the paradigm that Telescript supported called "Remote Programming" instead of Remote Procedure Calling is really different to the way we build services and mobile applications today.

This was a fascinating read. Thank you for putting it together.

Thanks for sharing that! I'll dig in after work, but for now, two small observations:

I believe Telescript was also part of the inspiration for EXAPUNKS :)

And I know for sure that I twisted some of its concepts into my Master's Thesis :grin:

I‘m curious how well the anthropomorphic approach works. Like, does it become weird/limiting to think of agents as little people that go to places, negotiate meetings, etc?

if you see them as robots and services I think it works pretty well as far as I can think

Fascinating stuff. Does anyone have any materials on how well/poorly this all worked in practice?

I know that agent-based systems was a hot topic in the 90s, were any others as widely deployed that we could learn from?