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Boomerang: A bidirectional programming language for ad-hoc data
- mvanveen 16y agoHas anyone actually used this language? The Overview sounds interesting, but doesn't deliver any specific code examples...
- logjam 16y agoThere are several examples in the manual: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~harmony/manual.pdf http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~harmony/manual.pdf
- hgfkh 16y agoA lot of the code samples there are split at page breaks, making them difficult to read. Are they provided anywhere as plain text files?
- jnfoster 16y agoThe distribution includes the full source code for all of the examples in the manual. Also, David Lutterkort at RedHat has developed an extension of Boomerang [http://augeas.net http://augeas.net] that folks may find interesting...
- itsnotvalid 16y agoIs it actively developed? The latest version is from 2009... I wonder if it have a version of 0.2, is it too far away from the last release? It would be interesting to grasp what use it proves.
- Vivtek 16y agoThis is cool stuff, developed by the same group that first did Unison (a synching utility that I have grown addicted to). The basic point is being able to define maps between data structures and then being able to update either end of the map and see the results transformed on the other - which is what Unison does at the filesystem/machine level; this is the same concept taken to the data structure level. It's hard stuff to get right, but it is so tantalizing.
- teyc 16y agoIf I recall correctly, early versions of JavaFX attempts this as well in its data binding, allowing bidirectional binding even in functions.
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