Life has led me to rethink computing, politics, and philosophy, meaning to develop a radically different approach to these subjects. Nothing that came after Pliant was initially planned. Only a rigorous requirement for clarification pre-existed.
This website, in the form of a series of questions, proposes philosophical foundations for living in today's troubled society, and makes the reading of the book From Capital to Reasonmore accessible. The site also addresses psychology and education, which form an inseparable trio with philosophy.
This book is the product of a lifetime of seeking the reasons behind collective human behavior, without finding any work offering an explanation beyond the merely plausible, let alone a satisfactory solution for living together well. Its key concepts are: 1. What is a human being on a scientific basis, and not on the basis of mere plausibility derived from introspection. 2. How to provide a serious answer to the two great questions of our time (how to meet the ecological constraint, and how to stop the progressive deterioration of the social fabric)?
The Pliant language and the FullPliant operating system are free software for which I am the author, and which I have made available for 25 years. Pliant is classic computing, but well-constructed, meaning with deep reflection on the concepts, and with fewer than 200,000 lines of code for the entire system, whereas standard computing has become a completely insane stack, even in the case of free software. But Pliant also shows that dissemination, even of free software, is far more a matter of marketing than technical merit, something I clearly ignored. The key concept of Pliant is non-syntactic meta-programming.
In contrast, Storga is a completely different way of approaching computing, with the aim of enabling operators to maintain control over their information systems, meaning the ability to adapt and automate them fully autonomously, without becoming, either beforehand or ultimately, dependent on professional developers. Storga was created within the company Copliant. The key concept of Storga is mastering complexity through: 1. organizing data on a model (pages, forms, and states) different from the relational model. 2. everything concerning a process managed in Storga (data, programs, documentation) remains extremely local.