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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