On 29 March 2014 18:35, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Sure he is repeating things. And sure he is reinventing half of what we > already have. > > However, he is likely to get more traction because he reinvents the UI, > not the core concepts. You could say it is not an essential contribution. > But, it is. > > The general misconception is that visual manipulation with objects can fully replace the coding. It won't and never will. Except from very simple cases (like computing the average :) You can try to visually express things like branching, conditional loops, common programming patterns, but i doubt you will find it convenient to program it in "visual" way rather than coding.
> Doru > > > On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Sure, guy just repeating almost same thesis as in the original Self demo >> dated back in '95, >> "direct manipulation with objects errr.. data".. >> except that now in crappy web-based environment.. and still missing the >> point.. >> because it is not about data, it is about objects. >> >> >> >> >> On 29 March 2014 18:20, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote: >> >>> Beautiful demo. This should be our game, yet others are playing it :(. >>> >>> Doru >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu>wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On 29 Mar 2014, at 10:38, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote: >>>> >>>> > This is a nice write down: >>>> > >>>> > http://www.chris-granger.com/2014/03/27/toward-a-better-programming/ >>>> > >>>> > with a nice demo of a prototype: >>>> > >>>> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6iUm_Cqx2s >>>> > >>>> > Luckily, the horrible C++ code computing standard deviation in the >>>> article can be written quite elegantly and directly in Pharo: >>>> > >>>> > | input | >>>> > input := #(2 4 4 4 5 5 7 9). >>>> > (((input - input average) raisedTo: 2) sum / (input size - 1)) sort. >>>> > >>>> > Sven >>>> >>>> Damn spelling correction ;-) >>>> >>>> | input | >>>> input := #(2 4 4 4 5 5 7 9). >>>> (((input - input average) raisedTo: 2) sum / (input size - 1)) sqrt. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> www.tudorgirba.com >>> >>> "Every thing has its own flow" >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Igor Stasenko. >> > > > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > > "Every thing has its own flow" > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
