Also, the flappy bird example doesn't render properly in Firefox, at least for me.
On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Nick H <[email protected]> wrote: > Embedding the code in its documentation is a very interesting idea. I can > see it being very useful for tutorials & libraries. (The examples were > pleasant to read through.) But generally I try to avoid comments in favor > of making the code self-documenting. Comments are a liability -- it's easy > for them to get out of sync with the code, and the compiler cannot stop > them from lying to the user. > > So this literate programming approach can reduce the maintenance cost of > documentation where documentation is needed. But I worry that if so much > emphasis is placed on the documentation, maybe there is less incentive to > make the programming language itself readable. > > This is just a general thought. I don't mean to criticize Eve's > readability in particular. Lord knows we get enough people throwing stones > at Elm because they can't understand it after just a few minutes :-P > > Thanks for sharing this. I'll be interested to see where it goes. > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Erkal Selman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I wonder, what the elm community thinks about Eve: http://witheve.com/ ? >> Here is the syntax reference: https://witheve.git >> hub.io/assets/docs/SyntaxReference.pdf >> >> I think that this language/architecture is worth to look at. >> It has many similarities with elm. >> But it is more like logic programming. (Is this the logic programming of >> the future?) >> >> I was following this project from far and I had the impression that he >> (Chris Granger) was doing some kind of excel. >> But now I see that they can do flappy bird in eve: >> http://play.witheve.com/#/examples/flappy.eve >> That is exciting! >> >> Is there something similar to Eve? >> It really looks like something new. >> >> My main question: >> What do you think, are advantages and disadvantages of Eve, if you >> compare it with Elm. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Elm Discuss" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
