Book Reading #17: HCI: Remixed

Chapter 6: A Creative Programming Environment

Summary:

Henry Lieberman writes about a creative programming environment called Pygmalion.  This language is designed by having icons as a switch that invoked functions, rather than as a string.  He met with the designer of the language, and saw it run.  Unfortunately, while running, it crashed, and the language was lost.

Discussion:

I think that this is an interesting language.  Most people think that how we currently have icons was developed by Macintosh, but it seems that it was not. This was interesting to see some of the history of one of the basis for operating systems today.

Chapter 7: Fundamentals in HCI: Learning the Value of Consistency and User Models