Watching the demo of this project reminded me of a draft of a proposal I wrote last year, with the goal of exploring self-documentation, threating source code as hypertext (I was reading a lot on Engelbart's NLS, Ted Nelson, Intentional Software and Symbolics Genera at the time).
For instance, I was missing the possibility to do things like gathering a bunch of related code on the screen (regardless of "files" or any kind of namespaces they might belong to), perhaps hyperlink them, write some explaining text (or mix with drawings, animations, ...), and using that screen as something like a squeak project. That was pretty much what I saw in the demo of codebubbles. I was mainly attracted to the idea of having a few of these "projects", each representing a given point of view of a subsystem or aspect of the software, hyperlinked and all, to create some kind of narrative to help explain and explore the inner workings of the software (as opposed to be exposed to the usual directory tree with a bunch of source files, or the class browser with a bunch of classes, where we end up having trouble figuring out where to start, how things relate and collaborate or what they actually mean). -- Thiago Silva Computer Science M.Sc. Candidate at Federal University of Pernambuco jabber/gtalk: [email protected] http://blog.sourcecraft.info On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Andrey Fedorov <[email protected]> wrote: > Reminds me of Squeak. Great for reading code, but still needs a bit of > innovation on how to "visually" edit code. > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
