[squeakland] Artifacts in ObjectCatalog
Hilaire Fernandes
hilaire.fernandes at edu.ge.ch
Thu Jun 3 09:10:19 EDT 2010
Steve Thomas a écrit :
> As far as whether they should be included in the Etoys Object Catalog.
> At this point I think not.
>
> Etoys (as near as I can figure) is built upon doing everything from
> first principles, which is part of its power and beauty.
> That said I think we need to solve the problem that it can take quite a
> while and not everyone is capable of building things from first
> principles.
You can even wrote most people are not capable of building things from
first principles. If we want Etoys to scale to a larger audiance, it is
a way to go.
Of course, it is not because we provide higher level artefact (in a way
we found appropriate) we are closing the door.
Hilaire
> Some higher levels of domain specific abstractions are useful and I
> believe necessary.
> Also, Hilaire makes a good point that to make things scalable these
> would need to be done in smalltalk.
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