Aug. 20, 2014
10:09 p.m.
:) Some guys like me and (camillo) for example are more in straight line thinking but you are so right. Stef On 20/8/14 18:53, Sean P. DeNigris wrote: > stepharo wrote >> I received Beacon (which at the end was trying to help defining a cool >> logger) as a sign that I lost my energy on building SystemLogger. Now I >> think that if I would not have built SystemLogger, we would not have got >> Beacon and our discussions would have been way poorer. > This is real wisdom. I too struggle with what appears to be duplication of > efforts, but I'm reminded of two related themes which Alan Kay talks about a > lot: > - evolution is closer to a random walk with a slight bias than a straight > line > - in biology, what often appears in human illustration/simulation as > components interacting in lock-step as if on a track is actually fortuitous, > made possible by the tremendous speed and energy of everything going on in > the cell > > So, as you discovered, and I need to be repeatedly reminded of, there is no > perfect world where the stars align and each piece moves with speed and > precision into its predestined place in the whole. There is only a sloppy, > often frustrating, two-steps-forward-one-step-back frenzy where what comes > out on the other side is hopefully better than what we started with. Said > more simply: "this is what winning looks like" > > > > > ----- > Cheers, > Sean > -- > View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Beacon-and-SystemLogger-united-tp4773973p4773975.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >