wow, congrats. This is very interesting.
This, in a way, is more "graphical programming" than Pd due to it
actually considering spatiality.
But there must be certain problems in this, in the sense of cluttering
and wanting to
do stuff in the same space. Do you have to go into the 3rd dimension?
Or create groups?
What is the colour coding of the lines, by the way?
Thor
On 20 Nov 2010, at 12:44, alex wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Here's a quick screencast of my new livecoding environment in
> progress, 'Text':
> http://www.youtube.com/user/yaxu?feature=mhum#p/a/u/0/lY-NaFqRviI
>
> The idea is to have a visual programming language that is more fully
> visual, using distance in its syntax. The graph is generated
> automatically, you don't have to connect the words manually like in
> max and pd. The closest, type-compatible words get connected
> together. The different colours are different types (e.g. white is a
> function). The interface is implemented in C with clutter, the graph
> is then compiled into Haskell code and sent to the Haskell
> interpreter. Currying works. Lots more to do UI wise... Most of the
> work was reimplementing the Haskell type system in C, a lot of painful
> fun.
>
> I think the end result is a messy programming notation where accidents
> are likely, but thanks to the strict type system, rarely disasterous.
>
> Cheers,
>
> alex
>
> --
> http://yaxu.org/
Received on Sat Nov 20 2010 - 13:18:33 GMT