Hi!
Now we should think producing the movie :)
Now seriously.. also a little of intellectual ergonomy will not hurt. As I see things Smalltalk born as an intellectual ergonomic approach to map the computers behavior to human thinking (and not the otherwise). Smalltalk is very good maping abstract thinking (and dynamic behavior trhough the use of messages). So it succeeds now in the most fundamental parts for this mapping goal and does it as an ergonomic and minimalistic machine.
The thing is, that there are *a lot* of other ergonomic details that are in the path to the human beigns in the human-computer interaction. And they that can be improved to make it a better path.
Think of going minimalistically and smoothly trough the path that goes through the hands and fingers (or whatever human hardware) to the abtractions in the synapses of the human brain: Smalltalk has an serious good chance of success. Also it's focus it's not diverging of this.
So if we can advance little by little prioritizing de development of the prioritest details that makes this path smoother we will be improving the heuristic scoring of squeak. This is to make an heuristic machine to be better in it's "heuristicality".
And now to think concretely about what could be good in this direction for diferent cases, we should ask ourselves constantly:
"what the interfcace of this tool/subsystem needs to lead me to the "eureka effect" more confortably, naturally or intuitively and so to unblock me in this concrete case that, I, the (human beign) user, am working on?"
A simplistic (so most probably incomplete) approach for this will be: to evade violations to the main design principles.
All the best,
Sebastian Sastre Design reference: http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_list.html
-----Mensaje original----- De: squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org] En nombre de sig Enviado el: Lunes, 02 de Julio de 2007 05:13 Para: The general-purpose Squeak developers list Asunto: Re: The land of the Mice, a bedtime story
I don't see 1) being a proper subset of 2). The
communities are very
different and the Land needs more than one castle :-).
Regards .. Subbu
to what i see, this land needs:
- good newspaper
- marketplace
- library
- college and scools
- roads with directions