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Inertia is a live user interface environment similar to Squeak and Self, in that there is no distinction between edit and runtime program modes. Prototypes have been written in C++, Io, Dylan, and now Ruby. It's a research project, so new ideas are being prototyped and explored. But it also has the goal of being very usable. Simplicity is one of the major goals.

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Presentation PowerPoint 2000 • 4.25 MB

Presentation PDF• 640 KB

Video Demo 1 Cinepak AVI • 5.9 MB

Video Demo 2 Cinepak AVI • 6.0 MB

ruby-inertia-0.6.zip Source + EXE • 4.0 MB

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Inspiration

http://research.sun.com/self
http://www.squeak.org
http://www.cliki.net/CLIM
http://www.cooperatingsystems.com
http://www.guidebookgallery.org
http://www.nooface.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MVC

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C++ Programming with MacApp, 1990
Learning Cocoa, 2001
Ruby in a Netshell, 2002
Smalltalk by Example, 1997
The X Window System in a Nutshell, 1992
The BeOS Bible, 1999