Yes, Smalltalk has liveness build in the core experience since early
releases. Is something that you can not find almost anywhere the common
experience of programming and computing in general. Recently I was
reading about how this liveness impressed Steve Jobs and his team and
inspired much of the computing after that (despite GUI, paradoxically
hid the live coding idea). Here are the details:

https://www.quora.com/What-was-it-like-to-be-at-Xerox-PARC-when-Steve-Jobs-visited/answer/Alan-Kay-11

With Grafoscopio, I want to leave outlining for writing and exploratory
computing in data storytelling, but also use Pharo browsers and code
inspectors when fits the problem better. I want to stretch the outline
metaphor as much as I can, while recognizing other ways of dealing with
coding and user experience.

Cheers,

Offray

On 28/06/17 12:22, Terry Brown wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 12:10:27 -0500
> Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Using Pharo Smalltalk I have experienced a similar feeling about a
>> direct live system where changes are reflected immediately without
>> any reload.
> Years ago someone showed me the Squeak Smalltalk environment.  It
> seemed that it had "liveness" built in from the lowest levels.  As in
> open an inspector / mutator dialog for the desktop background color
> object and watch it change dynamically as you change the value.  If
> Pharo's similar, I think it has more liveness intrinsically.
>
> But there is certainly potential for making some things more live in
> Leo.  We just have to work within PyQt etc. and how they work.
>
> Cheers -Terry
>


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