The Rolonic API

Today I was really struck by the thought that the API on the Ark really/definitively enables Rolonic programming. So I should give some effort to flushing out the API.

For me, rolonic programming is all about being able to handle genericly things that were always handled previously in application-specific ways. Knowing that data is ledger, classifier, descriptor or journal per say does not help. But having a generic API which handles state, inter-relationships, paramaterization and time significantly reduces an application's implementation, often to the point where the implementation simply vanishes and a generic role can be used instead. Of course, that makes it real hard to demonstrate how to implement an application. (Which is why I'm delighted with the idea of doing some interactive simple games.)

Bill