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Nice! One thing I thought ASTs weren't that good at was the initial writing of code - did you find that?
by gushogg-blake 5y ago
Nice! One thing I thought ASTs weren't that good at was the initial writing of code - did you find that?
- radford-neal 5y agoA big part of the design work was trying to get it to be good at that, while still being entirely tree based. But you'll have to judge yourself how successful I was. Well, your judging that would be easier if you could use it, rather than just read about it... I still have the source code, but since it was designed to work with a vector graphics display attached to a PDP-11, getting it to work in a modern environment would take some work. We had only one vector graphics display, so there was no chance then to have a significant user community, which was another problem.