Charles Simonyi on Intentional Software Joining Microsoft
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Charles Simonyi on Intentional Software Joining Microsoft
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Re: Charles Simonyi on Intentional Software Joining Microsoft
#22009 article by Martin Fowler on Intentional's Domain Workbench, https://martinfowler.com/bliki/IntentionalSoftware.html
> Afterwards a couple of people said it was the most important demo they'd ever seen, comparing it even to the Mother of all Demos. For many there was a sense that the whole world of software development had just changed.
Re: Charles Simonyi on Intentional Software Joining Microsoft
#32009 article by Martin Fowler on Intentional's Domain Workbench, https://martinfowler.com/bliki/IntentionalSoftware.html > Afterwards a couple of people said it was the most important demo they'd ever seen, comparing it even to the Mother of all Demos. For many there was a sense that the whole world of software development had just changed.
I remember reading that, there was a bit of hype then around Domain Driven Design, domain modelling, and domain specific languages (DSLs). I had the impression Intentional was working on an uber DSL IDE or something. This sounds like they pivoted over to some sort of semantic web[1] scraper thing.
We'll probably see SSIS and Excel integration soon...
Re: Charles Simonyi on Intentional Software Joining Microsoft
#42009 article by Martin Fowler on Intentional's Domain Workbench, https://martinfowler.com/bliki/IntentionalSoftware.html > Afterwards a couple of people said it was the most important demo they'd ever seen, comparing it even to the Mother of all Demos. For many there was a sense that the whole world of software development had just changed.
For the curious: it's difficult to find that particular demo on the web now, but the system didn't look too much different from its earlier incarnation at Microsoft in the '90s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSnnfUj1XCQ
Re: Charles Simonyi on Intentional Software Joining Microsoft
#5I had never heard of Intentional Software until I recently read Dreaming In Code[1] where the company is mentioned briefly.
Prompted me to wonder if they were still around, which led me to their Glasdoor reviews page which is sort of entertaining popcorn fodder[2].
Then lo and behold a few weeks later the acquisition popped up in the news. Synchronicity at work I guess.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreaming_in_Code [2] https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Intentional-Software-Revie...
Re: Charles Simonyi on Intentional Software Joining Microsoft
#6I had never heard of Intentional Software until I recently read Dreaming In Code[1] where the company is mentioned briefly. Prompted me to wonder if they were still around, which led me to their Glasdoor reviews page which is sort of entertaining popcorn fodder[2]. Then lo and behold a few weeks later the acquisition popped up in the news. Synchronicity at work I guess. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreaming_in_C…
> Synchronicity at work I guess.
Gotta love the Baader-Meinhof Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequ....
Re: Charles Simonyi on Intentional Software Joining Microsoft
#7Charles Simonyi is also the person behind the Hungarian Notation of naming variables.
Re: Charles Simonyi on Intentional Software Joining Microsoft
#82009 article by Martin Fowler on Intentional's Domain Workbench, https://martinfowler.com/bliki/IntentionalSoftware.html > Afterwards a couple of people said it was the most important demo they'd ever seen, comparing it even to the Mother of all Demos. For many there was a sense that the whole world of software development had just changed.
For the curious: it's difficult to find that particular demo on the web now, but the system didn't look too much different from its earlier incarnation at Microsoft in the '90s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSnnfUj1XCQ
There's a 2013 talk by Simonyi which talks about the workbench and enterprise use cases, but doesn't have screenshots, https://youtube.com/watch?v=4pT9tDmxjlg
Re: Charles Simonyi on Intentional Software Joining Microsoft
#9Research has shown that handwritten notes are more effective for learning and recall than typed notes, and for this reason pen computing will flourish whenever notetaking is required
Really? This smells like over-fitting the research to justify a desired commercial outcome.
Re: Charles Simonyi on Intentional Software Joining Microsoft
#10It always amazed me that during their ~10 years of existence they never actually produced anything visible, other than demos. I remember I had been very excited about their "intentional" approach, even though so many years later I tend to think that it is actually an evolutionary dead-end (anyone remembers 4GL and 5GL languages? The late 90s when CASE tools and visual IDEs like Delphi were all the rage?). There is no silver bullet.
I'd love to be proven wrong, though, and hope to see some of the "intentional" stuff in any real software product.