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
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Received on Sat Nov 20 2010 - 12:44:40 GMT