On 29 February 2012 17:09, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

That last sentence is why I think of the Browser as a "pinhole". You
can only see one tiny chunk of the puzzle at a time.

frank

> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Lawson English <lenglish5 at cox.net> wrote:
>> http://vimeo.com/36579366
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>> Lawson
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