Big Programming, Small Programming – Glow, the language
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Re: Big Programming, Small Programming – Glow, the language
#2The moment I see an open source repository for this I'm going to contribute the hell out of it.
This need to exist. This has to exist.
Re: Big Programming, Small Programming – Glow, the language
#3As far as I know, a language called GlowScript (compiles to js) exists.
The language author might consider changing its name to something unique, like 'StarLight' or something so as to avoid name controversy, and achieve maximum popularity :)
BTW, this project looks great. I'll keep an eye on it... :)
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#5This looks absolutely fantastic. Well, the whole visual programming thing leaves me cold, but the rest looks great. I'd be curious to see how data structures are supposed to look like. I assume they're some kind of structs (hopefully not featuring ridiculous name collisions like Haskell).
Re: Big Programming, Small Programming – Glow, the language
#6This looks absolutely fantastic. Well, the whole visual programming thing leaves me cold, but the rest looks great. I'd be curious to see how data structures are supposed to look like. I assume they're some kind of structs (hopefully not featuring ridiculous name collisions like Haskell).
Names, unless namespaced, collide in every language.
Re: Big Programming, Small Programming – Glow, the language
#7The concurrency features strike me as being influenced strongly by Hoare's CSP[1]. The flowchart like interface seems akin to Harel's reactive diagramming formalisms[2].
[2] http://www.scribd.com/doc/167971960/Modeling-Reactive-System...
Re: Big Programming, Small Programming – Glow, the language
#8This looks absolutely fantastic. Well, the whole visual programming thing leaves me cold, but the rest looks great. I'd be curious to see how data structures are supposed to look like. I assume they're some kind of structs (hopefully not featuring ridiculous name collisions like Haskell).
Visual programming used to leave me completely cold, but with the emergence of tablets and the promise not to make _everything_ visual, I hope to convince people otherwise. If you have not seen Bret Victor's brilliant "Future of programming" http://vimeo.com/71278954 and "Inventing on principle" http://vimeo.com/36579366, I highly recommend it.
I promise not to make the Haskell struct mistake.
Re: Big Programming, Small Programming – Glow, the language
#9The concurrency features strike me as being influenced strongly by Hoare's CSP[1]. The flowchart like interface seems akin to Harel's reactive diagramming formalisms[2]. [1] http://www.usingcsp.com/ [2] http://www.scribd.com/doc/167971960/Modeling-Reactive-System...
Yep, it is influenced by CSP. It is implicit in the text, since the primary influences (Pipes, Go, etc) are directly influenced by CSP.
Re: Big Programming, Small Programming – Glow, the language
#10This looks absolutely fantastic. Well, the whole visual programming thing leaves me cold, but the rest looks great. I'd be curious to see how data structures are supposed to look like. I assume they're some kind of structs (hopefully not featuring ridiculous name collisions like Haskell).
Names, unless namespaced, collide in every language.
Sure, but having a receiver avoids collisions for accessors. I'll illustrate the point below.
In a typical OO language, eg, Python, you'd do:
class Foo(object):
def __init__(self, bar):
self.bar = bar
foo = Foo("bar")
# prints 'bar'
print foo.bar
data Foo = Foo { bar :: String }
main = do
let foo = Foo "bar"
-- prints 'bar'
putStrLn (bar foo)