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What problems are not about that?

• seanmcdirmid 9y ago
  Plenty of programming problems are non-transformative, anything interactive for one. If you want to see attempts to make it transformative, there is pure FRP (not the fake kind, see Antony's Courtney's dissertation as a good example of how weird this looks at an extreme) and lenses. In either case, it feels like trying to shoe horn one solution to a problem into the wrong kind of abstraction. Much of the today's web work is also non-transformative.
  • virgilp 9y ago
    > anything interactive for one I feel there's a misunderstanding in how you use "non-transformative" versus how I interpret it. E.g. aren't interactive charts mostly about transformations? (data => aggregation => affine transforms => render the graphics)
    • seanmcdirmid 9y ago
      Mostly? Maybe, maybe not. Every program has transformational elements, but they may or may not dominate. A rendering pipeline is, but if you are implementing a text editor, you might not be doing many transformations at all.