[Oberon] BB Kernel Size

John Drake jmdrake_98 at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 23 20:10:10 CET 2006



--- Jack Johnson <knapjack at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/20/06, Douglas G. Danforth
> <danforth at greenwoodfarm.com> wrote:
> > BUT again what have you gained by having this "eye
> candy".
> 
> Tufte and others like to think in terms of data
> density.  Though eye
> candy doesn't always equal data density, Raskin and
> others have shown
> that those extra pixels can be used to convey
> information.  So I say
> don't ditch them, just utilize them.

Indeed, Chuck Moore (arguably the KING of lean 
programming) now uses color tokens to convey meaning
in his "ColorForth" programming language.

http://www.colorforth.com

Regards,

John M. Drake


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