On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:35 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>wrote:
> > The final argument against an official framework is that people would tend > to use it without understanding the underlying concepts involved. Once you > have those, building an app isn't really that difficult. > Hi Jacque, I am not really arguing for an official Framework with a capital "F", just a well supported one. RunRev has already has lots to do just make changes to the engine so this kind of framework would be easier to build. But I fundamentally disagree with the idea that you have to understand the underlying concepts to use a framework or anything for that matter. First when it comes to learning something new. One of the best ways to learn about the underlying concepts involved in something is by taking a part a fully functioning something (application, car, computer, toaster, clock, etc ) tweaking it and seeing what happens. It is far easier to learn how a car works by starting with a working car, then trying to build one from a box full of spare parts. Second, that idea flies in the face of some of the most important principles of software design. Modern software design is all about code re-use. Even with the best most efficient language, one person will never keep up with a team of programmers who can efficiently share code. There are just a limited number of keystrokes you can make in a day. Shareable reusable code is all about packaging it up in such a way that the other person does not need to know how it WORKS. They just need to know how to USE it. This is a huge difference. Third, But of course we all intuitively know this don't we? Live Code is just one layer on top of several other layers that play out as little pulses of energy across silicon wafers. I am willing to bet that there very few people in the world who understand all the underlying concepts that allow the Live Code runtime to do what it does. In fact there may not be any one person who really understands every piece of that puzzle. Yet by all accounts many people use Live Code everyday. Even more obviously, how many of us understand all of the underlying concepts involved in a car's electronic, multi-port, fuel injected acceleration control system? Yet we all know that when we step on the gas. Todd Todd Geist ------------------------------ geist interactive <http://www.geistinteractive.com> 805-419-9382 _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
