On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Trygve Reenskaug <tryg...@ifi.uio.no> wrote:

>  It's a fact of life that leverage implies rigidity. A rubber crowbar is
> flexible, but useless.
> Our challenge is, as I see it, to determine the minimum we need to keep
> rigid in order to get maximum leverage for doing the rest.
> --Trygve
>

Very insightful point. Case in point: most frameworks. Bootstrap, Seaside,
... All add rigidity but also structure.

Phil


>
> On 03.02.2015 14:34, Marcus Denker wrote:
>
>
>  On 03 Feb 2015, at 14:29, Sebastian Sastre <sebast...@flowingconcept.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>  On Feb 3, 2015, at 11:18 AM, kilon alios <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> But the more user it will get the more inflexible will become to change.
> That's a big price to pay for abandoning the nomad life.
>
>
> Note that, that statement, is not exactly true.
>
>  The more users it gets, the more social pressure the community will put
> on it.
>
>  That happens.
>
>  But...
>
>  Flexibility is function of design and not coupled with community size.
>
>
> And it is a good problem to solve: We need to change the language to make
> it easier evolvable.
> A very nice research topic.
> (which in a second step then can be feed back into the system, making
> future evolution easier)
>
>  Marcus
>
>
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>
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> objects collaborate  to achieve a goal.
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