UML really?!

sorry for taking this a bit off topic

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Robert Casto <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree with others as a debugging, problem resolution, and research tool. I
> especially like how you can create a panel with documentation, debug values,
> and much more. I could triage a problem, and then ship it off to a developer
> for fixing. I would be sure they could see the problem since all the
> necessary data is right there. Using it as a code editor though would
> require more work I think. If it has support for ERD, UML, and other such
> tools, that would be very compelling as a development tool.
>
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Johannes Thönes
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Yes I agreed. It is a very interesting approach. And I would love to
>> hear an interview about this.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I stumbled on this video of Code Bubbles in action:
>> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsPX0nElJ0k
>> >
>> > and was quite amazed. I'm not sure if its pragmatic to have so little
>> > signal-to-noise when actually typing new code, but there's easy
>> > solutions around this. Basically, your IDE is an effectively boundless
>> > plane and the granularity of editing anything isn't per-file but per-
>> > method/class, with the method/classes actual location just metadata,
>> > with the IDE sorting it all into the appropriate files internally.
>> > Navigating anywhere is primarily via a search-in-everything keyboard
>> > box, and code appears in bubbles on this infinite plane. If you do
>> > things like "visit declaration", the declaration opens, but in a new
>> > bubble, visible together with the original code, instead of what most
>> > current IDEs do, which is to open a new 'tab' and replace the view
>> > entirely. It would also be an _amazing_ pair programming / code review
>> > IDE if only you could all work in one plane, each having their own
>> > little section in it, with you able to freely travel to someone else's
>> > space. Unfortunately from the video it seems like all you can do is
>> > email workspace layouts around, but that too could be addressed, I
>> > guess.
>> >
>> > Later on in the video a debug session is started which really does
>> > look amazing (for code editing I'm not entirely convinced yet, but
>> > that looks like a fantastic debugger!)
>> >
>> > I know discussions about "Why are code editors still a glorified dumb
>> > terminal" show up from time to time and this is certainly something
>> > new.
>> >
>> > There isn't a download yet; more info is here:
>> > http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/acb/codebubbles_site.htm
>> >
>> > I wouldn't mind seeing an interview of Andrew Bragdon about this :)
>> >
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