2014-10-24 19:27 GMT+02:00 Sean P. DeNigris <[email protected]>: > kilon.alios wrote > > Dont know what you feed this monster but it took forever to load on Pharo > > 4 > > and now it gives me the error MNU receiver of "do:" is nil > > Yes I should've mentioned that I've only tested on 3.0. > > > kilon.alios wrote > > Are you serious about this project or its just a little experiment for > you > > ? > > I'm serious. I want this to be my only development tool. >
Then I'd be interested in what you end up with. When you focus on making something different your full time IDE, it ends up being an interesting exercise. > I remember how weak the old System Browser felt compared to OmniBrowser, > and > eagerly anticipated Nautilus. When it arrived I was in a very different > place after researching the principles behind revolutionary systems > SketchPad, Self, Morphic and others. So I realized that the real barrier to > my expression was not the quality of the browser, but the browser concept > itself. A browser, for me, is just too abstract, and keeps my mental model > too far removed from "sending messages to live objects". > I've been using Self as my main development environment for a few years, when I was doing my PhD. The idea was great, but something in the execution was getting in the way of efficient coding (or my efficient coding, I don't remember which). Looking at the newspeak GUI and there is something of the same nature, but I can't point out what. I've been thinking carefully and going very slowly because there are so many > ideas that it's easy to get lost trying to reinvent everything at once. I > don't really know the next step until I live with the system for a while in > each stage. Although I think once code editing and graph layout are > implemented, there will be a reasonable foundation. > Keep working on it! Thierry > > > > ----- > Cheers, > Sean > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/LivingCode-was-Clickable-class-side-example-and-initialize-methods-in-Pharo-4-0-tp4786411p4786521.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > >
