The Idea Processor, or “What is the use case?”

Over on the “Next, OOP, WWW, HTML” thread, Akkartik challenged me with the question: It’s not clear to me what use cases motivate your search. I’ve been trying to bite my tongue and I’m failing… I feel some impatience with this thread I’m less interested in coming up with the perfect tools that make doing any abstract thing a pleasure, and more interested in getting on with the doing of concrete things in rigorous even if unaesthetic ways. And that brought me up short. I hadn’t thought...