On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 01:40:45PM +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote:
> One slightly different but really important point, which visual
> programming languages allow (but no real reason that ascii ones can't
> too) is highlight the process as well as it's description. I can't
> understand why people don't do this more - for instance, flashing
> play/trigger/bang instructions in sync with the sounds they represent is
> great for the audience and for the livecoder too.
That was something that really fascinated me about Thor's ixilang - watching
the code morph as he typed other code to change it. I would like to see more
programming languages that self-modify infront of your eyes in order to reflect
program state, or just whatever.
Chris.
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Received on Mon Oct 19 2009 - 13:10:42 BST