Problem with simple Dice/DiceView program

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sat Jul 29 10:28:36 UTC 2006


Sure I agree so say it that way.

> all I want to emphasize is that "simple things should be kept  
> simple" and that Smalltalk and MVC do not always provide us with  
> the right perspective for doing so.
>
> I love the uniformity of the Smalltalk approach and wonder how a  
> smooth transition of a system like Etoys, where all objects are  
> user interface, into a full fledged programming system could look  
> like. Is it Tweak? Is it something else? I don't know.
>
> "Form follows function --- that has been misunderstood. Form and  
> function should be one, joined in a spiritual union" (Frank Lloyd  
> Wright)

  So you could have a image viewer
that you could program in 5 lines. Etoy is still fairly complex in  
terms of interface and run-time semantics. This is not because
you get something done that this is simple. I think that simplicity  
is a vicious point. Good abstractions does not mean simplicity. Look  
at the conceptual complexity of the
Smalltalk uniform model (which I love but is difficult to follow ie  
metaclass when this is the first time).




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