Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Announce: metaABM 1.0.0

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Miles T. Parker wrote:
> For example, if someone has a great idea for a little ABM language, 
> they don't have to worry that there target platform is going to become 
> irrelevant and they'll have to do all of the heavy-lifting all over 
> again.
There will always be a need for some code base that takes an abstract 
form and acts on it.   That code base, like any code base, could go 
unmaintained.   And while compression is a useful thing, it is different 
thing from invention.   I can't help but wonder if the process of 
compression (e.g. finding high-level interfaces that can support various 
toolkit backends -- toolkits that are themselves mostly just simplifying 
projections of larger software APIs) interferes with the process of 
invention (e.g. finding ways to represent models that actually help give 
insight).  

Marcus