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I am a bit disappointed about Light Table, though it was obviously coming.

Good luck with Eve. I am sure you have read it already, but the paper "Out Of The Tar Pit" by Ben Moseley and Peter Marks might be of interest.

http://shaffner.us/cs/papers/tarpit.pdf

The first half is pretty dry. Around Section 7 they get into describing a non-standard way to look at application design. Their language design ideas might fit well with the goals of Eve.

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A lot of our overarching design is based on things they laid out in Out of the Tar Pit :)

hehe, cool. I thought the separation of concerns sounded familiar.

I expect Eve will have an open architecture? So that those of us that like to plumb the depths can play too.

Most of these "programming for the masses" projects inadvertently throw up road blocks to experienced programmers. GUI's where you have to use the mouse and click 10 times to create a function, complicated formats that don't lend well to source control, etc.

With what we saw with Light Table, I am hopeful you will easily sidestep these sorts of issues.

> I expect Eve will have an open architecture? So that those of us that like to plumb the depths can play too.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8397747 :)

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