Play

I've been reading some book that describes the history of scientific discovery (books aim being to debunk scientific method) and comparing the scientific method with the actuality of the creation of ideas and construction of application or experimentation. What seems pretty clear is that this process is akin to play, i.e. the idea and construction grow in an intertwined fashion.

Lots of people are very keen on interpreted languages, particularly those like Ruby, Smalltalk, Tcl etc. The reason for this maybe that it allows the developer to play and maybe play is very effective and efficient. The problem comes with creating a safe play environment on large systems. Maybe if someone cracks that problem I'll get a more rewarding environment in which to build stuff.

Oh, and we'd get to use playdough to produce systems.