swaroop

Reminds me of the Longhorn promise (WinFS, etc), and we ended up with Vista (it's a decent OS, but as an end-user, it just hogs more memory, I don't see any other benefits).

I hope they make this happen though.

Definitely. This is like Bollywood/Hindi movies making rip-offs of English movies. It still adds value because it brings the idea (the story) to a number of people who wouldn't have been able to use it otherwise (language barrier).

And you're comparing Google Docs to which product by 37 Signals?

MXML is to HTML as ActionScript is to JavaScript.

Try out some of the example applications at http://degrafa.org/samples/ and try to guess how long it would take you to write those samples using modern javascript frameworks vs how long it would take to write using Flex/Flash.

Please see http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Vim_en:Scripting#Using_extern...

There are other professors who recommend research and are actively pitching people to join:

http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/braman/cut-edge-2005/slides/...