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> They need a much better idea of time (such as approaches to McCarthy's fluents). I am not sure what the time problem is for functional programming, but I rec
by bbcbasic 10y ago
> They need a much better idea of time (such as approaches to McCarthy's fluents).
I am not sure what the time problem is for functional programming, but I reckon the Elm language/framework solves problems with time in a very elegant way with it's flavour of FRP and Signals.
In Elm, you can play back your UI interactions in a debugger as they happened and watch the variables as they would have been!
- alankay1 10y agoWorth looking at Bob Balzer's EXDAMS system at Rand in the late 60s early 70s.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoGoogle search gives a lot of gibberish on those terms. Here's the paper for anyone trying to follow-up on that comment: https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/afips/1969/5073/00/50730567.pdf https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/afips/1969/5073/00...