jonrgrover

To do this we need to build technologies that can work with information and meaning in code in addition to data. Users think in terms of information and meaning much more than in terms of data. These technologies would allow us to build code in the language that users use. This will give us the right tools to build meaningful user interfaces easily. In other words, we need the right tools for the job. I am building one of the many tools needed for this. It is called the endeme. It is a library for c# that can be found here: https://github.com/jonrgroverlib/InfoLib. Discussion can be found here: https://thisstack.wordpress.com.

Any project that works with information inside a computer program as well as data has a chance to be 20 years ahead of its time. Current software development supports information very poorly, and supports data very well. Right now the most we can do to work with information is to extract it after the fact using Data Analytics. If we could work with information inside a program that would be a huge leap from where we are now.

I used inheritance rather than composition when writing a wrapper to DataTable (before extension methods existed) in C#. I fixed it later for future companies, but it ran in about ten times the time it should have taken and it killed the product. A little while later I offered to come back to the company to fix the mistake. it would only have taken 2 to 3 hours, but by then the product was dead.