On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 12:24:25PM +0100, alex wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 10:22 +0100, dave wrote:
*snip*
> > For example, I've been playing around with a
> > script that converts lispy languages into dot graphs, it's not working
> > properly yet, but here is the graph representation of the program
> > itself:
> >
> > http://www.pawfal.org/dave/images/dotty.png
I could be wrong, but is that effectively just a parse tree?
> > I just wanted to know what they looked like, but there is no reason you
> > couldn't write an editor that allowed you to build programs like this.
>
> Agreed, but what would be the point?
I'm thinking that syntax highlighting is a good example of adding a
visual aspect to textual languages. I like the idea of having
one-to-one mapping between a textual language and a number of
graphical representations which made implicit information explicit and
also allowed the programmer to manipulate the graphical representation.
Cheers,
Rob.
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Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering.
The University of Melbourne, Australia.
Received on Mon Aug 14 2006 - 23:32:07 BST
