Yes. But but besides the exisiting professsional needs of large coding
Jason - projects,
I do believe Leo offers a valuable emerging new paradigm, one which may find its best home with beginners and people in small collaborative groups.
We, on the surface, at least, seem to have a tempermental difference. I guess I need to feel that I have outgrown the old paradigms before I go searching for new ones with too much vigor. Don't give myself that much credit. Geometry is about as old a paradigm as there gets. It seems to have kept me busy enough for a good stretch now. I espouse a paradigm of sitting down with compass and ruler and doing Euclid - soup to nuts. As a start. I love a good compass - especially the older ones, with nibs for ink. <snip>
The best argument I can make for LEO-like interfaces is that in the *right* hands they can improve thinking, design, understanding and presentation.
It will take time to get these tools into a really good balance netween
Not arguing - though it sounds like I am, probably. L:eo looks intriguing. If I had the time, I'd defintiely look at it more closely - and hope that at some point I will. Unfortunately there are many such things on my list. Heady times we live in. Art power
and simplicity. The fist adn 2nd generation of Web development has sadly sold people on an extremely chaotic model where linsk typically take you *away* from the context. The rapid growth of Community Wikis alongside individual Blogs show people want better management of gathering and sharing their ideas, discoveries and work. I consdier the 3rd gernation of the Web now playing out. I think it much healthier than what came before.
Nor will I let myself buy new golf clubs til I break 90 with some consistency. Because I know the clubs ain't the problem, and only when I become better will I be able to take advantage of what is better about better clubs.
Granted. But remember, LEO is free btw, unlike those shiny new gold-plated titanium tipped, dayglo golf clubs you don't really need!
./Jason