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Magic Ink by Bret Victor

Future of Coding

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Having a Design Tool That's Not Working With Abstractions

Programmers pride themselves on their ability to work with abstractions. Having a design tool that's whole goal is not having abstractions and yet offering dynamicness is kind of I don't know it, he says. The designer using this tool is still working with abstractions but the way that they work with those abstractions is in terms of concrete examples rather than algebraic ones. "This is an alternative approach where you're starting with concrete numbers right like I have a five and I need to get 15"

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