[squeak-dev] can this be done via modification to the
Squeak/Pharo IDE?
Chris Muller
asqueaker at gmail.com
Wed Feb 29 17:09:56 UTC 2012
His presentation was impressive and refined, but he failed to mention
a _most dynamic_ way to develop ideas... By closing one's eyes and
simply imagining the possibilities without *any* burden of visible
code. IOW, imagine without being constrained by the "how" or whether
its even possible. THEN, note it down in words and try to implement
it with a dynamic system like what he showed.
To do that, his statement about a "direct connection" to the tools is
something I do agree with 100%. A connection to the computing system
via the cerebellum rather than the cerebrum, so that the cerebrum is
free to focus on ideas rather than user-interface gestures. This is
something that Squeak excels in, IMO.
His comment on modality really emphasizes this point, and something I
think folks even in this community could stand to listen: when I
observe folks in their demo videos using Squeak or Pharo, almost every
time I see folks browsing in a modal way. They have a big
Package-Pane browser open and they're looking at one package, one
class and one method at a time... They have to do about 4-5 clicks to
"navigate" to a sent method, and 4-5 clicks to get back. This is way
too slow for ideas to emerge.
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Lawson English <lenglish5 at cox.net> wrote:
> http://vimeo.com/36579366
>
> Lawson
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