[Haskell] Announcing Pan# 1.0

2004-03-31 Thread John Peterson
Announcing Pan# 1.0 Pan# is a new front end for Conal Elliott's Pan system. Pan# is a stand-alone system that displays interactive functional images expressed in a slightly augmented Haskell subset. Pan# is ideal for demonstrating the core principles of functional programming

Re: [Haskell] Announcing Pan# 1.0

2004-03-31 Thread Vincenzo aka Nick Name
On Thursday 01 April 2004 00:47, John Peterson wrote:   * Movie making capabilities Do you describe animation as in fran, or do you just describe each frame separately? V. -- A: Top posting! Q: What is the most irritating thing on Usenet? ___

Re: [Haskell] Announcing Pan# 1.0

2004-03-31 Thread John Peterson
The difference between Pan and Fran is that Pan is stateless: the image is a pure function of the current control settings (system stimulus) rather that a stateful signal function as in Yampa or Fran. So you couldn't really do the infamous paddleball game or make use of switching or integrals or