Comments on: Exploiting Spatial Memory: Code Canvas http://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/?p=1267 Or, What has Software Engineering got to do with Climate Change? Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:42:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: neil http://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/?p=1267&cpage=1#comment-1569 neil Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:45:28 +0000 http://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/?p=1267#comment-1569 I worked for a while on large ontologies, and one of the lessons I learned there was not everyone needs the 'birds eye view' approach (overview;zoom and filter; details on demand). The people who actually edited these things everyday only really cared about the details part. Like literate programming: who is the audience? Most developers don't see the payoff. Maybe Javadoc annotations are as much as we can expect. As an aside, you really ought to post this stuff to FriendFeed. It is a great venue for discussing these issues. P.S. As you are on sabbatical, can we expect you to be coding in Fortran soon? I worked for a while on large ontologies, and one of the lessons I learned there was not everyone needs the ‘birds eye view’ approach (overview;zoom and filter; details on demand). The people who actually edited these things everyday only really cared about the details part. Like literate programming: who is the audience? Most developers don’t see the payoff. Maybe Javadoc annotations are as much as we can expect.

As an aside, you really ought to post this stuff to FriendFeed. It is a great venue for discussing these issues.

P.S. As you are on sabbatical, can we expect you to be coding in Fortran soon?

]]> By: Greg Wilson http://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/?p=1267&cpage=1#comment-1567 Greg Wilson Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:24:40 +0000 http://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/?p=1267#comment-1567 How about "an extensible programming system"? :-) How about “an extensible programming system”? :-)

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