VNOS, the Visual Network Operating System
I
mentioned
Naked Objects a couple of days ago; this
VNOS appears to be roughly along the same lines.
(Seen on
Usernum 1014 (Adam Curry's) blog.)
The following quotes are bothering me, though:
"With VNOS, anyone can be a programmer..."
and
"Naked objects are core business objects [...]
that show directly through to the user.
I guess they bother me because they sound like the old COBOL claims
("managers can understand your COBOL programs because they
look like they have English words in them") except with boxes, pictures and arrows
instead of pidgin-like English.
Programming will remain complex. Using graphics can help show that
complexity to the users, and can help hide some of the lower levels of it,
but cannot ultimately make the complexity go away.
Also mentioned at 1014:
Chimera, a FAST, mozilla-based bare bones Mac OS X web browser.
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