Re: [fonc] Coding at the Speed of Touch

2011-06-16 Thread Ryan Davis
On Jun 13, 2011, at 22:03 , David Barbour wrote: I think some recent work by Sean McDirmid may be of interest to the FoNC audience. Coding at the Speed of Touch http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4257 This paper describes a programming language with a tile-based development

Re: [fonc] Coding at the Speed of Touch

2011-06-16 Thread Max OrHai
Prograph, much like Self, looks to be another tragic visual programming language story (and the moving obituary for the lead developer on the Andescotia Marten website doesn't help!) As far as I'm aware, the visual dataflow language that gets the most actual use nowadays (albeit in a narrow niche

[fonc] Coding at the Speed of Touch

2011-06-13 Thread David Barbour
I think some recent work by Sean McDirmid may be of interest to the FoNC audience. Coding at the Speed of Touch http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4257 This paper describes a programming language with a tile-based development environment designed for use in tablets. The 'type system', such as