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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