From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: Graham Perkins Subject: Re: College, C, etc. Date: 1998/10/29 Message-ID: <3638548E.5CB0@dmu.ac.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 406274397 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <6skfs7$2s6$1@hirame.wwa.com> <35F252DD.5187538@earthlink.net> <6t4dge$t8u$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6t5mtp$4ho$1@news.indigo.ie> <35FFE58C.5727@ibm.net> <3600E72E.24C93C94@cl.cam.ac.uk> <6ts1q0$vo2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <361DBC60.C153BBAD@earthlink.net> <36228EC3.4F7381FD@domain.nul> <3630b064.23189339@news.supernews.com> <3630C8DC.DF508803@fv.com> <3634DC76.57788481@fv.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: De Montfort University Milton Keynes Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: gperkins@dmu.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-10-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Darren New wrote: > > It sounds like there might an interesting story in that. > > Would you be willing to post (or email) it? > > Sure. The advisor in question wanted to draw pictures of communicating > finite state machines Basically, he wanted to animate Estelle programs, > which are formal descriptions of network protocols... The other student > trying to do this was using C and XLib,... > ...I wrote a smalltalk program in a > week that would draw a state machine animating, consuming it's input > string and creating it's output string. The prof was sufficiently blown > away at the apparent ease similar story here. My colleague is putting together a clothing design tool with some heavy maths software in the background that attempts to capture and reason about design ideas. She struggled a bit with the Smalltalk interface paradigm to start with, but gave a demo to her research colleagues last week. They were sufficiently impressed that they thought it was just a mock-up! (her gains are due to ease of creating and testing the domain model, and low coupling benefits from GUI style that allows her to rapidly flash up different form and graph tools and keep them all synchronised) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Graham Perkins, De Montfort University, Milton Keynes http://www.mk.dmu.ac.uk/~gperkins/