<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Stephen Bloch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bloch@adelphi.edu" target="_blank"><span class="" style>bloch</span>@<span class="" style>adelphi</span>.<span class="" style>edu</span></a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On Mar 6, 2013, at 11:54 AM, mikel evins <<a href="mailto:mevins@me.com">mevins@me.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Rather than answer your questions directly, it seems much easier and more apropos to address the underlying assumption that images and source files are somehow mutually exclusive. They're not. Adding the ability to save and load images does not subtract the ability to work with source files. I don't know why people seem to think that.<br>
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</div>I don't think anybody has said (or assumed) exactly that. My concern would be that a workflow involving heavy use of images would TEND towards creating functionality for which there is no source code.<br>
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In other words, the images don't make it impossible to work with source files, but they make it possible and tempting to work without source files. </blockquote><div><br></div><div style>No, they don't. </div><div>
<br></div><div style>AFAIK, only in Smalltalk and <span class="" style>Interlisp</span> environments developers worked</div><div style>without source files.</div><div style>.</div><div style>In the Symbolics, <span class="" style>LMI</span>, and Explorer Lisp Machines, developers always </div>
<div style>used source files. In the company where I worked, we used images </div><div style>everyday and no one ever thought about not using source files.</div><div style><br></div><div style>We also had a development environment (<span class="" style>KEE</span>) where methods could </div>
<div style>be edited either using a sort of code browser similar to the one used </div><div style>in Smalltalk or the regular <span class="" style>ZEmacs</span> editor and normal source files. </div><div style>Everybody preferred the second approach.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Best,</div><div style>Antonio.</div></div></div></div>