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Quote: Smalltalk has only a few, very general rules for constructing objects; can not infer sufficient information to help the user
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help in UserInterface
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It appears to us that Smalltalk has fallen … [diSessa HCI 1985]. The formalist tendency is to provide a sparse set of … distinctions. [e.g.,] Because Smalltalk has only a few, … optimal help. Google-1 Google-2
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Quote: Smalltalk has fallen into the formalist trap of too few primitives; requires subtle distinctions to differentiate parts of the system
Topic: limitations of formalism (92 items)
Topic: help in UserInterface (33 items)