On Dec 9, 2007 4:39 AM, Damien Pollet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 09/12/2007, Waldemar Kornewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I fully agree and I, too, would like to rethink a few conventions > > (mostly the UI). I just want that this project results in a > > *successful* product, not a new niche. > > Getting out of the niche (or not getting in it in the first place) has > more to do with PR than with technical merit. Else NeXT, the Canon > Cat, or Smalltalk would be both alive and popular. For PR you want > incremental changes and concrete applications, while for innovative > stuff you want crazy ideas without bonds to the past, and time to > crystallize them.
I agree, but I also hope that we can make people switch to "innovative stuff". As you indicated, communicating the advantages is critical, but you need to talk to your users in a way that they can easily understand and compare to their own problems/needs. A strange syntax can make this very difficult. If this project is primarily designing for and gets accepted by children (later adults) then I'd not focus so much on acceptance outside that target audience. Still, unless we're reinventing all concepts of the world there is no need to break with conventions that go far beyond programming, so I hope we can find a sensible "middle-path". Bye, Waldemar Kornewald _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
