Hi, El 08/07/11 08:34, Edward K. Ream escribió:
[...] > > Many thanks for these links. On my walk yesterday I had many new > thoughts. One was that Leo's leaders, including you, are likely to > come up with the way forward. That's been true many times in the > past: I had a vague idea and somebody else showed me how to do it :-) [...] > Please keep us informed about your thoughts and experiences. [...] > > Many thanks for your comments. They are always thought provoking. > Thanks for your words and encouragement. I can see you, Ville, Terry and Kent as leaders of Leo, but I have never thought of myself in that way but having a place in this community and feeling worth on it is really important (leadership apart... in some sense ;-) ) > >> Sorry if, for the moment, this sound >> kind of abstract, but this is the kind of thinking that Leo/Smalltalk >> provokes and invites in me, and I will give more concrete details about >> the projects after. > > No need for apology. This is just about exactly the kind of thinking > I use when in creative mode. I'm not sure I would call it abstract > exactly. I might call it vague :-) Everything is vague when we don't > know exactly where we are going. However, we do know, vaguely or not, > that we are only just at the beginning of what can be done with the > analysis of programs. That's the important thing. You're right, that the important and vague was the proper word. >>> 2. Thinking about lint and program analysis leads me to think of Leo >>> as a platform for new kinds of programming tools. >> >> I'm agree. Caliopy is an example of this kind of new programming tools, >> an also I think that the 5.0 with the attempt to bring more users needs >> to "think outside the box" of programmers and think in a more general >> user (something like caliopy for structural engineers but thinking in a >> wider audience). > > Interesting. Caliopy's buttons show just how much can be done already > in the Leo framework. > > BTW, googling Leo and Caliopy I found some files at the University of > Namibia. One never knows where the ideas will spread. Speaking of > which, I basically have no idea about how many people use Leo. The > Alice project, the late Randy Pausch's project, invited users to send > electronic postcards. Something like this would be very useful for > Leo. Well you will get postcards from Colombia, South America too :-) Cheers, Offray -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en.
