The future of Morphic (Was Re: Shrinking sucks!)
Marcus Denker
denker at iam.unibe.ch
Tue Feb 8 22:32:17 UTC 2005
Am 08.02.2005 um 23:17 schrieb Cees de Groot:
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 20:22:17 +0100, Marcus Denker <denker at iam.unibe.ch>
> wrote:
>
>> actually, my experience of using Tweak as "just a better morphic" for
>> implementing tools (debugger, browser) has been a very
>> pleasent one. And that with zero documentation... quite easy to build
>> GUI's with, even for standard boring bussiness user type
>> of stuff I think it's quite nice.
>>
> Yes, but the question is whether the makers want to keep it that way,
> or constantly burn diskpacks in order to make the end-user experience
> (afaict, the main goal) better. Like, being pleasant to build apps
> with might just be an unintended side-effect that is scrapped in the
> next version because better ideas arise.
>
> I'd welcome such a "ruthless" development cycle for end-user Squeak,
> but it might mean that for boring old-style development we'de better
> stick with something more controllable :)
>
>
At some point I hope that even Andreas will want to have something else
than "just another demo for Alan"...
Just (mostly) joking ;-)
Marcus
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