On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Vishal Iyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Thats a great question.
>
> >From the iRise website (http://www.irise.com/patent/):
> "The invention covered by this patent is the use of a graphical,
> drag-and-drop interface to allow non-technical users to define functionally
> rich simulations – without resorting to software code to generate them. "
>

Reminds me of something ...

Oh yes:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Construction_Set>

1983: Is that prior enough?

Not sure how drag&droppable it was but I remember being bowled over when
this came out because of the idea you could just drop things around into
place and they would operate as real functional objects as part of an
interactive "functionally rich simulation"...

-- 
Tim Ostler

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