Hi all,
On 30/01/15 05:07, andrew_at_moso.com.au wrote:
> NOTE: If you plan on doing Charlie's survey, you might want to do
> that before reading this post!
>
> I enjoyed the survey Charlie, it's interesting work that you're doing
> with Gibber, keep it up! However, I also couldn't help but think
> that the elephant in the room is always swept under the carpet with
> this type of investigation.
>
> In my limited experience 'live text' is interesting in theory but
> pretty useless in practice. Useless because I don't believe that it
> is 'generalisable' in any meaningful way, and interesting because I
> hope that someone will someday convince me otherwise :)
The most fun I've had with this is by leaving the realm of text
altogether, where it isn't a secondary notation but a primary one, e.g
betablocker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j-CFeS1hCE
So while I agree there is probably a limit to what can be done with text
- this is a tremendously important topic, particularly with relation to
education (+ audiences love it), and probably in writing better code too.
Simple things can be effective... I remember seeing an optimiser that
coloured the code to display hotspots in inner loops, and wished that
this was standard feature, as it would have made working on performance
critical code in teams rather easier to manage... :)
cheers,
dave
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