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From: eugene@ames-pioneer.ARPA (Eugene N. Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.society
Subject: Re: The Aesthetics of Computers
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Date: 19 Feb 88 00:34:38 GMT
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Wayne wrote:

> First off, I prefer reference materials, however voluminous, to be online.  

> Note that the organization of text into a linear or non-linear form may
> be affected by the choice of delivery vehicle, so that "I prefer to do X
> by paper and Y by on-line tools" becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy.

I suggest you strongly look at:

  Warren Teitelman, "The Cedar Programming Environment: A Midterm Report and 
    Examination", Xerox Palo Alto Research Center CSL-83-11, Palo Alto, CA,
    June 1984.

  (Additional Keywords and Phrases: integrated programming environment,
   experimental programming, display oriented user interface,
   strongly types programming language environment, personal computing)

A lesser version of this paper appears in
  IEEE Software, "A Tour Through Cedar", April 1984.

The format of the first paper is closer to the "real" feel of Cedar.

A better example comes from the sample Cedar video tape from PARC and a
part of which appears on the ACM/SIGGRAPH/SIGCHI Video Review 1984 (?).
If you read the paper, you will discover that close to 1/3 of it is
footnotes.  This is distracting on hardcopy but really neat on the
screen.  I can't describe what it's like working with it.  Since then,
of course, Notecards and the whole Hypertext thing has come out, but 
at the time it's was really neat.  I really think the PARC people (and 
special kidos to Doug Englebart, formerly at SRI and now at McD/Tymshare) 
are doing it right.

Eugene