From: Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>
Date: 2009-08-06T17:11:58+09:00
Subject: Re: How Come Ruby is Text-Oriented?

> All in the eye of the beholder, eh?

I dont think this holds true. Sure, it may hold true in the context of 
the given example, but I personally think that there are multiple ways 
for a human to interface with computers in a "creative" fashion (in the 
sense as to create a program).

The smalltalk approach is really cool, and I think really visual 
programming is far from its peak - however at the same time I never felt 
that smalltalk reached its full potential. Seriously, I believe aside 
from some hyping I always felt that "scripting languages" have had a 
much more profound effect in programming. Or even haskell. Text stays 
simple, and smalltalk has never struck me as a very elegant language 
where something like squeak would give you a 1000x increase in 
productivity.

As far as UIs are concerned, I actually think that the smarter the UI 
the better. This is why I believe the "commandline" will one day fail - 
like the day when we have really awesome hardware AND software. Nobody 
inspired by science fiction movies?
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