On Mar 5, 2013, at 10:08 AM, Matthias Felleisen <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> I have empathy for your perspective, because I have worked with images and -- > at the time -- found them useful. > > I will also say that in my own experience of developing a tiny sliver of this > code base, it is much more like a conversation that I resume every so often > over many years. If nobody read the minutes to me, I'd be lost as to where we > last left off and what the other party knows. > > I can easily see how someone who always works on 'the system' doesn't get > that feeling and needs much more of a stream of conversation sense. And I can > also see how support for images does not get in the way of reading minutes. > > FWIW, Dick Gabriel uses the label "programming system" for your perspective > and places it opposite to "programming language." I now think if we succeeded > in arranging these aspects in a somewhat orthogonal manner, it might be a > contribution. > > Thanks for writing down your thoughts -- Matthias Thanks for asking. If Racket can come to accommodate image-based programming without interfering with the things it already does so well, that will be quite wonderful. --me _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
