Presentation matters too…

Indeed, “tooling” takes more time that implementation, as the Eclipse folks can tell you as well.

Manipulating first class program objects directly is arguable a more modern way of programming than augment a quaint, 20th Century, 95 character ASCII representation of a program. Our implementation relies on syntactic solutions for specializers, but employed something of a hybrid approach for CLOS “qualifiers” and Method Combination designation. (By hybrid, I mean we assembled them programmatically, but hadn’t completed adding browser support, which brings me back to my point about “tooling”)….