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I feel like my personal challenges coming to understand Self are often exaggerated by Morphic. Most of the linguistic notions I gather from reading papers aren'
by tel 13y ago
I feel like my personal challenges coming to understand Self are often exaggerated by Morphic. Most of the linguistic notions I gather from reading papers aren't too tough, but I always bounce off when trying to translate that to effects in the Self environment.
- doublec 13y agoI encounter that too. I started writing Self code in a text editor and loading it in the REPL. Some of the code shipped with Self is like this (The Mango parser code for example). Once I was more familiar I started learning the GUI environment. It took me a while to work out how the object transporter worked to export code back to text files but once I got that Self became a lot more friendly to use.
- tel 13y agoSee, I'd love to do that but I don't think the documentation ever bothers to explain it.
- sebastianconcpt 13y agoA.K.A. UI poorly solved usability challenges. In a way, the fundamentals of Self is the future of programming but we need to get designers helping with the UI/UX Smalltalk has a similar challenge