Opps sorry, didn't mean it to go public. What the heck; red face. I really meant it for integrating all the instrumentation in a hospital. All the alarms going off, and then being turned off, driving me mad. Simply because the staff couldn't handle them. Some patients died. The different alarms sounding like an orchestra warming up. That give me the idea. Thanks Craig You're a life saver. Justin
---- Craig Latta craig@netjam.org wrote:
Hi Justin--
Trying to avoid the code, whilst trying to find the Purpose. Is there one?
Yeah! There are three:
- to support live music programming in a way that an audience can
follow. We use projectors so that the audience can see everything we do, as we do it. This is "livecoding" (once again I can plug http://toplap.org :).
- to make "text adventures" easier to write, by be able to write them
from the point of view of the "player-character"
to provide a "shell" alternative to the traditional Smalltalk workspace.
Also see the "motivation and influences" section of the Quoth site.
I see a need for the concept of IDE, from the POV of the subject i.e. mySelf. This Integration is not from the top down, but from the bottom up. This demo immediately presented to my imagination and entire orchestra. With mySelf in the role as conductor. Perhaps even contol it? Is this over stretching the metaphor?
No, that sounds reasonable. :)
-C
-- Craig Latta improvisational musical informaticist www.netjam.org Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)]