On 7-Jan-07, at 12:16 AM, stephane ducasse wrote:

> I think that what is interesting is that people have the tools to  
> try new ideas even if you think  that they are idiot.

Yes, that is good and interesting; the faster people ca try out ideas  
and discover which ones are bad, the better it is. As we used to say  
at Interval Research  - Fail Early, Fail Often.

Squeak is definitely one of the tools I would consider valuable for  
this. So is SketchUp, so is the Doom Programmers Kit (or whatever it  
may be known as). So is modelling clay....

And none of it stops me thinking that is a bad idea to  
photophysically emulate a bad way of working. Sure it's cool that you  
*can* do that that but that doesn't make it a good way of working.

tim
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