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Author here. I've studied Forms/3 a bit! It's a good reference. Flogo from Chris Hancock is also good to know about: https://llk.media.mit.edu/papers/ch-phd.pd
by Glench 9y ago
Author here. I've studied Forms/3 a bit! It's a good reference.
Flogo from Chris Hancock is also good to know about: https://llk.media.mit.edu/papers/ch-phd.pdf https://llk.media.mit.edu/papers/ch-phd.pdf
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoI really like what you did with the nested grid layout, it’s totaly an idea worth stealing! Flogo 2 and Hancock’s dissertation are my goto for live programming origin work. There has all been some recent out of MIT (called object-sheets). Also, Fowler’s illustrative programming post helps to put spreadsheet programming into better context: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/IllustrativeProgramming.html https://martinfowler.com/bliki/IllustrativeProgramming.html. Also, here is a recent survey I wrote up about the field a couple of years ago: https://conf.researchr.org/getImage/live-2016/orig/LIVE_2016_paper_1.pdf https://conf.researchr.org/getImage/live-2016/orig/LIVE_2016... You might find it useful.
- Glench 9y agoOh hi Sean I didn't see that it was you. We worked at CDG at the same time! Thanks for the links and survey. I think something like "illustrative programming" is going to be really important. There's already some evidence of this in the observation that programming in Flowsheets is just so pleasant. I'm working on a couple demos that try bring this pleasantness to other types of programs.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoAh? What lab? I regret never actually getting to meet everyone. It makes sense that we all had similar ideas about how to change programming :). Anyways, we should have some kind of meeting about this eventually (with people like Jonathan Edwards, Chris Granger, and probably many others). There is the LIVE workshop held yearly at SPLASH, the next one being in Boston at the end of October.