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Omar Rizwan . @omar,

physical computing as new programming material w/ new grain

at a deeper level, i think a thesis of these systems is that materials are important, that you'll make different (and novel) stuff when you're programming here than when you program in JS (or when you program an iPhone app, or a shader toy, or whatever) that by imposing these weird constraints and giving you this database and these default-recognized statements to query & doing all this stuff with pieces of paper, we're trying to create (or at least fake) a new type of material and so of course if you have a specific idea already in your head and want to execute it, you can execute it with the existing tools of a web browser or a phone or whatever, but we're interested in generating new ideas (it's like if you were like, what's the point of oil paint, or watercolor, or acrylic paint, because you can probably mostly fake a specific image made by one with the others -- the point is that these all have different resistances and grains that lead you to make different stuff in the first place)
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