[Fonc] WYDIWYG

[John Carlson]

Seems like we need to take "What you do is what you get" from testing and
robotics and apply it to networking and user interfaces. We've seen Bret
Victor's work. We've seen Rational Functional Tester. We've seen
Pro/Intralink. When do we get this functionality in hardware and
foundational systems? Why do we have to keep "adding-on" when it should be
foundational? Or is it really an add-on?

John

[John Carlson]

Let me just clarify that I meant network and user interface programming.

Post by John Carlson
Seems like we need to take "What you do is what you get" from testing and
robotics and apply it to networking and user interfaces. We've seen Bret
Victor's work. We've seen Rational Functional Tester. We've seen
Pro/Intralink. When do we get this functionality in hardware and
foundational systems? Why do we have to keep "adding-on" when it should be
foundational? Or is it really an add-on?
John

[Julian Leviston]

Could you explain more about this? I’m not entirely sure what you’re referring to by WYDIWYG - it could refer to several things or I’m not familiar with the term and my web searching proved somewhat fruitless. Also how does this link to Bret Victor’s work - to my understanding, Bret Victor is interested in pulling out the not-so-obvious from our interfaces and therefore in turn our education and making it explicit, tangible and workable.

Julian

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Seems like we need to take "What you do is what you get" from testing and robotics and apply it to networking and user interfaces. We've seen Bret Victor's work. We've seen Rational Functional Tester. We've seen Pro/Intralink. When do we get this functionality in hardware and foundational systems? Why do we have to keep "adding-on" when it should be foundational? Or is it really an add-on?
John
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