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If I understand correctly Homespring has chosen one metaphor, and you write programs exclusively in the terms of that metaphor. This is not really different fro

If I understand correctly Homespring has chosen one metaphor, and you write programs exclusively in the terms of that metaphor. This is not really different from current languages except that the more common metaphor is of a kind of abstract machine, and theirs has to do with salmon moving in rivers (presumably the runtime is largely a simulation of the river, salmon, etc.). And in general metaphor oriented programming languages would choose some other metaphor (probably something strangely concrete), and you would express things in terms of its parts. Is that close?

sshine 8y ago
Yes, I see it as a pun on e.g. object-oriented programming taken to absurdity. Ever since learning of Homespring I've wanted to create another metaphor-oriented language around a different metaphor. Clearly the learning curve for Homespring is caused by people not knowing enough about fish farming. The right metaphor for most cultures is clearly agriculture.
- westoncb 8y ago
  Heh, I suspect you are correct—agriculture would have been much easier for me to comprehend. I'm also reminded[0] of Slartibarfast's 'Starship Bistromath'; from Wikipedia: The ship is said to work by abusing the laws of 'bistromathics', which is the specific mathematics of values of various factors in restaurants, such as the bill, number of people attending, number of people said to be attending, number of people who leave and the time they all arrive. In the novel Life, the Universe and Everything, bistromathics is explained that "Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in space [...], so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants." [0] Actually it was my sister who reminded me about Starship Bistromath after I told her about this, not my own recollection.

sshine 8y ago

Yes, I see it as a pun on e.g. object-oriented programming taken to absurdity. Ever since learning of Homespring I've wanted to create another metaphor-oriented language around a different metaphor. Clearly the learning curve for Homespring is caused by people not knowing enough about fish farming. The right metaphor for most cultures is clearly agriculture.

westoncb 8y ago
Heh, I suspect you are correct—agriculture would have been much easier for me to comprehend. I'm also reminded[0] of Slartibarfast's 'Starship Bistromath'; from Wikipedia: The ship is said to work by abusing the laws of 'bistromathics', which is the specific mathematics of values of various factors in restaurants, such as the bill, number of people attending, number of people said to be attending, number of people who leave and the time they all arrive. In the novel Life, the Universe and Everything, bistromathics is explained that "Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in space [...], so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants." [0] Actually it was my sister who reminded me about Starship Bistromath after I told her about this, not my own recollection.