Mel Conway has come up with a 85-tweet narrative on his view on having a universal-level arrangement for computational operations that is learned the way we all learned to listen, speak, move, walk, and explore as infants. The idea is that we will ultimately grown up in this, whatever its forms, and it will have become a natural capacity. Conway has an approach in mind.
The threads are all on Twitter.
Prelude (1 tweet)
0. Introduction (2 tweet thread)
A cloud-based Application Development Platform for the Rest of Us
1. Thesis (2 tweets)
- If non-programmers are going to build real-world solutions, a simpler programming langauge isn’t enough
- posits a collaborative situation in which everyone can participate with the skills they already have
2. Democratization of culture-critical information technologies (Historical Perspective: 16 tweet thread)
3. Universal Human Skills Model of Progress (16 tweet thread)
4. Humane Tool Design: 12 Principles (14 tweet thread)
5. On Platforms (20 tweet thread)
6. Where the Work Stands Now (17 tweet thread)
The proposed goal is a Humane, Asynchronous, Asymmetric Construction Platform for Stateful Business Applications
There is background material in Conway’s Humanizing Application Building presentation (PDF download).
I can appreciate the thesis, and I think Excel is a perfect illustration of the kind of collaborative participation that could be involved. I would like to know more about what is essential versus incidental in the proposed cloud-based arrangement.
Above all, Conway’s thesis and narrative merits much thoughtful consideration.
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