[Moose-dev] Ladder of Abstraction

Hi all, i found this very interesting page: http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/ on Twitter. This is something that we could envision in future versions of Mondrian: be able to explore/visualize systems and data in a more interactive way at multiple levels of abstraction. I also like the paragraph at the end "Appendix: Tools & Implementation" with sentences like: "Unfortunately, development environments generally don't support this process." and "Perhaps IDE makers will focus on dynamic exploration instead of static analysis, rich visualization instead of line debugging. Perhaps language theorists will stop messing around with arrows and dependent types, and start inventing languages suitable for interactive development and discovery." The animation in this page are done with the help on an js library called Tangle : http://worrydream.com/Tangle/ One nice idea could be use it from Amber Smalltalk in order to have this kind of exploration and at the same time the IDE suitable to modify algorithms and parameters. Regards, -- Serge Stinckwich UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC), Hanoi, Vietnam Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk http://doesnotunderstand.org/