Re: [livecode] scheme bricks

From: Dave Griffiths <dave_at_pawfal.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:31:32 -0000 (GMT)

> On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 15:36 +0000, Dave Griffiths wrote:
>> A way to 'visually' livecode scheme, which takes advantage of the nature
>> of lisp's code <-> data structure isomorphism:
>>
>> http://www.pawfal.org/dave/index.cgi?Projects/Scheme%20Bricks
>>
>> I wrote it in a few days, and it's fiddly (especially using a track
>> point
>> nipple!) but it has some advantages over text which I think gives it
>> some
>> promise...
>
> Here's something similar for postscript:
> http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/97
>
> Oddly there's something that looks like daisychain later in the article
> (although quite different in operation, I haven't read that far yet).

That's interesting... I didn't realise ps was similar to scheme, and
parsable that way. I guess there is only so much distance between scheme,
forth and logo etc.

Thanks for posting it on reddit ;)

cheers,

dave
Received on Fri Dec 05 2008 - 09:31:50 GMT

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