> > Well, from our side of the world, obviously a killer simulation environment. I recently watched an interview on the Research Channel with Anders Hejisberg, inventor of Turbo Pascal and C#. A former project manager of his at Borland was talking about their abandoned visual programming project, Monet, that Anders was involved in before joining Microsoft. Anders remarked that sometimes "a single line of code is often worth a thousand pictures. You die a slow death of a thousand lines going from here to there." [An example of the "lines" being the object/message connections i.e. MacOS X Interface Builder.]
It's all fine and good to try to lower the cost of entry to ABM, but to get science done ABMers need a way to say something precise and have it understood by theorists. Pretty visual programming systems, GIS, etc. don't necessarily accomplish that. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
