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It happens that you don't get the insight into how to do something right until after you've made a few messes. I think Kay takes the view that the act of genera
by radiowave 5y ago
It happens that you don't get the insight into how to do something right until after you've made a few messes. I think Kay takes the view that the act of generating that insight is ultimately more valuable than the act of producing any one particular software artefact.
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- ssivark 5y agoBecause for the PARC folks from back in the day, the true vision for personal computing was to enable lots of people to do new things. That’s why Kay laments that the personal computing revolution is yet to happen.
- TeMPOraL 5y agoNow let's apply that insight to the subproblems of your problem. And then to the subproblems of those subproblems. The way I see it, the tools we use to program - all the way from IDEs through programming languages to the very way we code in plaintext - make the process too damn slow, the feedback loop way too long. Messing around, trying and modifying and retrying until you get something good, it all takes too long, so we hardly do it.