- Make it like Excel = doesn't pan out
- Make it like English = doesn't pan out
- Make it visual = doesn't pan out
I find the end result (kinda like a Wiki crossed with a Relational DB) intriguing.
It also was interesting to see him mess up the overcharging query I would have liked to see a more realistic debugging situation.
Was it a dead-end?
I had great optimism for LightTable, helped Kickstart it, but was disappointed with ultimately for the very reasons he outlined at the beginning of his talk: it couldn't shift me from emacs. It's not religious for me, but I could try and fail two or three times over in the time it took me to boot lighttable, figure out how to load my code, eval it and begin to debug it.
I enjoyed this presentation though. His Eve does strike me as a sort of proto-semantic web, although I'm warier of pouring my optimism into it this time though.
Would it be fair to characterize this as a re-invention of that, or are there significant differences I'm overlooking?
Notes wasn't without it's problems though: version control and data typing being two important ones.