On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]
> wrote:

>
> Fernando told me that he wants to program in 3d its objects/class so I
> imagine that what you want is
> the "same" looking at browsing coding in a different way.


Pretty much along those lines yes.  What I'm working on is building the
sorts of systems that work well for programming "in the round" where you
cover the walls of your meeting room with projectors, and multiple groups of
people can directly collaborate on code, test it, and run it right
there.  The classic code browser approach doesn't lend itself to multiple
people editing and manipulating the code at the same time, it is designed
for a single user on a screen with limited real estate.

The other issue is that the browser environment hides too much complexity,
and so it doesn't scale up when you can use gigantic displays with infinite
virtual space.  I've done 2 initial versions of the interface in Javascript
and Forth, and am working on porting the environment to Pharo.   I think
Pharo Smalltalk + a new editor designed for tele-team programming would be a
very compelling platform for a lot of distributed projects.  The past few
years, every project I've consulted for involved programmers in at least 5
time zones. Our tools really need to better reflect that reality. :)

Dave
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