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> It's a hard thing to categorize, because it's not exactly the same kind of thing as anything else. It's not too difficult to get close. "It's the visual equ
by cxr 3y ago
> It's a hard thing to categorize, because it's not exactly the same kind of thing as anything else.
It's not too difficult to get close.
"It's the visual equivalent of Unix pipes."
"It's a browser inspector with an infinite/unbounded amount of Miller columns." (NB: the browser here is a Smalltalk browser and not a Web browser.)
Etc.
- bradrn 3y agoAfter seeing the video, the closest I can get is: ‘it’s like a Smalltalk equivalent of Emacs org-mode, but even more dynamic’. Which makes sense as an analogy: org-mode is also famously hard to explain, and adding more dynamism just makes it harder.