Bert Freudenberg wrote: > Am Jan 19, 2007 um 15:16 schrieb Arthur: > > Then I do not understand at all why you are picking on Kay and > Smalltalk/Squeak/Etoys. Peeking under the hood is *precisely* what > this is about. In Squeak, you can inspect *every* UI object with a > built-in, always-available tool, the "halo". Two clicks later, you're > at the code, and if you know what you're doing, you can change every > last bit of it, taking effect immediatelty. Now try that in about any > other GUI - find the code that's behind *this* button and change it. > Good luck. >
In a world of ubiquitous Smalltalk there might be some sense to this story. Though I have never been motivated to follow that vision very far down its road. If I was forced to consider a ubiqitous something, and the decision was mine, and I would look at it carefully ;) But since the world of ubiqituous anything is not the world I live in, or want to live in, nor thinkwe should pretending there is, I dispute that Smalltalk/Squeak/Etoys visiion is one that offers transparency in any meaningful sense. I consider Pata/Pata, for example, an implementation of the Squeak vision of transparency, as a "for example". Very quirky vision. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig