[FRIAM] Open Source Project?

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>
> Well, from our side of the world, obviously a killer simulation environment.
I recently watched an interview on the Research Channel with Anders 
Hejisberg, inventor of Turbo Pascal and C#.  A former project manager of 
his at Borland was talking about their abandoned visual programming 
project, Monet, that Anders was involved in before joining Microsoft.  
Anders remarked that sometimes "a single line of code is often worth a 
thousand pictures.   You die a slow death of a thousand lines going from 
here to there."   [An example of the "lines" being the object/message 
connections i.e. MacOS X Interface Builder.]

It's all fine and good to try to lower the cost of entry to ABM, but to 
get science done ABMers need a way to say something precise and have it 
understood by theorists.   Pretty visual programming systems, GIS, etc. 
don't necessarily accomplish that.