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The Future of Transclusion, Akscyn, R.M. (2015)

Akscyn, R.M. (2015). The Future of Transclusion. In: Dechow, D., Struppa, D. (eds) Intertwingled. History of Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16925-5_15

Expiditee is a system that removes many concepts of data, programming and interaction that we are used to. No desktop, dialogue boxes, files, folders, layers or menu bars. No editing mode, no focus, no scrolling. No names, text cursor or saving, apparently no user interface just content. Classes (and objects, as well as over a hundred other concepts of object-oriented programming)

No declarations (variables are self-typing). No functions (there are only procedures). No keywords (no reserved terms). No programs (there is no program level, execution can begin at any block). No symbol-controlled calling (all calls are done by links).

3.4 Results of Omissions Trajectory
In short, the over-40 years of ZOG/KMS/Expeditee trajectory has been an embarrassingly slow “de-learning” of many of the concepts computer science has used to advance the state of the art over the past five decades. Thus, from the outside, these systems appear as though little or nothing has been developed, which is precisely what was intended so that, akin to a car windshield, users are rarely aware they are using a system. Instead, they are able to keep their attention on the task at hand.

He offers four dimensions to expand transclusion:

Expanding the sources of accessible material that is permissibly transcludable (i.e., does not violate copyright as well as generally accepted norms)

Expanding the set of transformations that can be performed on the transcluded material

Decreasing the size of the smallest grain size of transcludeable material

Making transclusions recursive