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Original Post: Parts re-invented
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Scoble is blown away by a PARTS like demo. Yeah, these things are cool - when Digitalk introduced it in 1995, there was tons of oohing and ahhing. (yes - yet again, Smalltalk was doing this eons ago... like a lot of stuff the curly brace crowd is only just now discovering) The trouble is, it doesn't scale. Yes, you can build some cool demos with lines connecting components. Now try to build something non-trivial that way. Notice what you get onscreen? A haze of lines - I recall calling it the green haze back in the day. If this sort of technology is used to connect very coarse grained components, then it has some value. At the level Scoble talks about? It's demo-ware that doesn't scale. Not only that, but the poor slobs who actually buy into it and build applications with it end up with extremely hard to maintain soup....
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