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The live REPL is totally out of Bret Victor, very impressive.
by houshuang 12y ago
The live REPL is totally out of Bret Victor, very impressive.
- enen 12y agoThat. Was. Awesome. Totally Bret Victor type of stuff. I was just meaning to play with Light Table but as an iOS developer.. oh my god.
- chrisdevereux 12y agoBret Victor used to work in R&D at Apple, so that probably isn't a coincidence
- Osmium 12y agoFirst thing I thought. I wonder if Bret had any input into this? Very happy to see his ideas in a production environment anyway.
- justinhj 12y agoCheckout Scala worksheets (Eclipse and IDEA) and LightTable too.
- jerdavis 12y agoYeah.. Because Scala doesn't have a metric ton of problems. AVOID!
- stcredzero 12y agoBasically, he just came up with something using FP that was more demo-able than somewhat hacky things people were already doing in other languages/environments. (For which, he deserves tons of credit.)
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoBret victor's demos really have nothing to do with FP. The textual code demos in his learnable programming essay are all JavaScript and fairly imperative.
- stcredzero 12y agoAs were a lot of the things you could do years earlier in Smalltalk. FP with referential transparency makes it a whole lot easier and slicker. (Can also do it with data flow analysis.)
- nikki93 12y agoBy 'FP' here you guys mean 'functional programming?'
- stcredzero 12y agoYes
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- akx 12y agoUnsurprisingly, I looked at the screenshot, came back to this comments page and ctrl+f'd for "Bret".
- surganov 12y agohttp://www.quora.com/Did-Bret-Victor-work-with-Apple-on-the-design-of-Swift-Playground http://www.quora.com/Did-Bret-Victor-work-with-Apple-on-the-...
- MaysonL 12y agoOr Scala worksheets in Eclipse, or any Lisp implementation.