maybe i should make an 'application'
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i feel like archetypal 'applications' are, like, Photoshop, or AutoCAD, or Mathematica, or Excel, or Blender, or GIS software. as opposed to 'apps' or 'products'
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an application as a kind of home u can live in for its domain
often a lot of panels and toolbars and menus and stuff orbiting around a central planet, the view of the object you're creating -- the document or map or 3D model or whatever
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"Introducing a new [programming] language doesn't work… but people will embrace what looks like a useful new application in itself." books.google.com/books?id=0drDR
![Our basic argument is that the problem with programming is not pro-
gramming; it is the languages in which people are asked to program.
The difficulty for end users has been that, for the most part, we have
not developed the right formal languages to meet their needs. In a few
cases, when we have developed such languages, end users have been spec-
tacularly successful in programming their own applications… Stephen Wolfram, the inventor of Math-
ematica, has remarked, “Mathematica’s success is based on a trick. Intro-
ducing a new [programming] language doesn’t work ... but people will
embrace what looks like a useful new application in itself.” The source
of the success of the formal end user programming languages in these
software systems is that the language primitives are the application-level
primitives with which users are already familiar. A mathematician, in a
broad sense, already knows Mathematica, an accountant already knows
Lotus 1-2-3, a statistician already knows SPSS.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeXb7y-VoAEsVnc?format=png&name=900x900)
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When we hear archetypal 'applications', it instantly sparks 'monolithic' in our minds, and this is definitely something we're actually trying to get away from at the moment.
Here's explained it really clearly:
See: "Simple decoding and playback"
nopenopenope.net/posts/audio
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That's a fun doc, thanks! Would you sum it up as some variant on "unix philosophy"?
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Another example is the screencapture pipeline in plan9, since the screen itself is a file, it can be cat into other things and read through.
wiki.xxiivv.com/site/plan9.html
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