Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Introducing Sifflet, visual functional programming language

2010-05-24 Thread gdweber
Thanks for the compliment -- and reading assignment. I was not aware of Gem Cutter; it looks quite impressive! These are the features I'm hoping to add to Sifflet; if you'd like to urge any particular priorities, please let me know: - additional data types, possibly including trees and

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Introducing Sifflet, visual functional programming language

2010-05-15 Thread Henning Thielemann
Gregory D. Weber schrieb: Introducing Sifflet -- version 0.1.5, first public release! Sifflet is a visual, functional programming language. Cool - when do we get something like Gem Cutter? :-) http://resources.businessobjects.com/labs/cal/gemcutter-techpaper.pdf

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Introducing Sifflet, visual functional programming language

2010-05-14 Thread Gregory D. Weber
No, it's aimed at beginning-level programming students, especially those who are struggling with the idea of recursion. So, not only is it not intended as a full-featured real world programming language, but it is definitely not suited for that purpose: -- Very small set of build-in functions.

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Introducing Sifflet, visual functional programming language

2010-05-13 Thread Gregory D. Weber
Introducing Sifflet -- version 0.1.5, first public release! Sifflet is a visual, functional programming language. Sifflet programmers define functions by drawing diagrams. Sifflet shows how a function call is evaluated on the diagram. It is intended as an aid for learning about recursion. * A

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Introducing Sifflet, visual functional programming language

2010-05-13 Thread Ivan Miljenovic
On 14 May 2010 11:50, Gregory D. Weber gdwe...@iue.edu wrote: Introducing Sifflet -- version 0.1.5, first public release! Sifflet is a visual, functional programming language. Sifflet programmers define functions by drawing diagrams. Sifflet shows how a function call is evaluated on the