Re: [polyml] Poly/ML and UI toolkits [Was: Poly/ML]

2014-12-12 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 14:17:27 +0100 (CET), Makarius wrote: Makarius> Back to the original question: a public version of the Makarius> aforementioned GTK C bindings for Poly/ML would be great. Agreed, so could someone ping Phil Clayton about it? I am too shy (having been given access to an early

Re: [polyml] Poly/ML and UI toolkits [Was: Poly/ML]

2014-12-12 Thread Lucas Dixon
I had a student project writing a SCRIPT tag interpreter for PolyML as a firefox add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/polychrome/ (PolyChrome) This let you do some HTML-based UI. I actually think that HTML5, especially Polymer, provides a pretty good way to write cross-platform

Re: [polyml] emacs SML mode

2014-12-12 Thread Lucas Dixon
There is an interesting thing here which I'd like make sure is said explicitly: if you're interested in writing ML (not SML'97 as Makarius points out), then writing your program on top of Isabelle is something you should seriously consider. You get a better build system, an IDE, and tons of very he

Re: [polyml] Poly/ML and UI toolkits [Was: Poly/ML]

2014-12-12 Thread Makarius
On Fri, 12 Dec 2014, m...@beroal.in.ua wrote: IMHO, Web GUI is a fad. HTML was not intended for GUI, and this poor creature continues to be, not quite fit for what it is used, a pile of amendments without much thought. It surely has its advantages, network capability and no installation, but t

Re: [polyml] emacs SML mode

2014-12-12 Thread Makarius
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014, Peter Gammie wrote: On 11 Dec 2014, at 4:14, Makarius wrote: I don’t "hack" on Isabelle/Pure, but edit it carefully and thoughtfully, using plain jEdit with its static ML mode. Sounds like I might as well use emacs rather than “plain jEdit with its static ML mode” for

Re: [polyml] Poly/ML and UI toolkits [Was: Poly/ML]

2014-12-12 Thread Buday Gergely
Ian Zimmermann wrote: > Personally I start to feel that UI tookits of this kind may be a dead end, > and Web interfaces may be the only solution. If only that didn't require > learning Javascript :-( How about using smltojs? http://www.smlserver.org/smltojs/ - Gergely ___

Re: [polyml] Poly/ML and UI toolkits [Was: Poly/ML]

2014-12-12 Thread me
IMHO, Web GUI is a fad. HTML was not intended for GUI, and this poor creature continues to be, not quite fit for what it is used, a pile of amendments without much thought. It surely has its advantages, network capability and no installation, but the main one is popularity or hype. On 12.12.1