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> From: Kent Beck <[email protected]> > Date: March 30, 2010 9:55:03 PM GMT+02:00 > To: Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: feedback on the bees book > > Please do forward my idea to the list. I'm available for consultation with > whoever is implementing it. The key seems to me to begin with the goal--a > more fluid programming experience--and work backwards to measures that > approximate "fluidity" and a way of rapidly experimenting and getting getting > concrete feedback. > > Cheers, > > Kent > > On Mar 30, 2010, at 12:29 PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > >>> >>> That's one of the deep lessons of software development--the tortoise beats >>> the hare. Every day you make the software better, it gets better. >> >> exact, so sadly. Smalltalkers got trapped in their nice little boxes and now >> lua is popping up as well as ruby or python. So many missed opportunities >> and total lack of vision. ... >>> I do enjoy Pharo. I find that it's still quite awkward with a Mac, from a >>> click path perspective (too many gestures necessary for the common actions), >>> but I don't have any concrete suggestions so I suppose I shouldn't complain. >> >>> I don't remember exactly which operations are hard to get to, except >>> perhaps "extract method". I'd love to have Pharo instrumented so every menu >>> item was tracked, then do a global optimization to reduce the number of >>> gestures necessary to operate the interface. >> >> kent if you let me forward this mail to pharo may be somebody will do it >> just because you say so. >> >>> I suppose for completeness you'd also need to track the time between when a >>> menu popped up and when the item was selected. This would avoid the Squeak >>> problem of endlessly growing menus. I wonder if anyone has done this kind >>> of quantitative UI design optimization before... >>> >>> Too many fun things to do. >> >> > Yes ;) _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
