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I wonder if there are GUI widget systems not based on deep inheritance trees. It seems to me that GUI and OO are deeply synergetic.

daxelrod 12y ago
This is no accident. Smalltalk was developed at Xerox PARC and included an MVC interface toolkit. http://st-www.cs.illinois.edu/users/smarch/st-docs/mvc.html http://st-www.cs.illinois.edu/users/smarch/st-docs/mvc.html
chriswarbo 12y ago
Maybe some of these would interest you? https://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Applications_and_libraries/GUI_libraries https://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Applications_and_librari...
CoffeeDregs 12y ago
I think the functional people took a whack at this question with functional, reactive programming. Some links: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2672791/is-functional-gui-programming-possible http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2672791/is-functional-gui... http://blog.reactiveprogramming.org/ http://blog.reactiveprogramming.org/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1028250/what-is-functional-reactive-programming http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1028250/what-is-functiona...
kps 12y ago
It's only slightly oversimplifying to say that OO was invented for a GUI, namely Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad in the early '60s, and then developed with direct correspondence to physical objects in mind (Simula 67) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USyoT_Ha_bA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USyoT_Ha_bA - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simula http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simula - The Development of the Simula Languages in HOPL I if you can get it, else http://phobos.ramapo.edu/~ldant/datascope/simula%20history.pdf http://phobos.ramapo.edu/~ldant/datascope/simula%20history.p...
- seanmcdirmid 12y ago
  Sketchpad was prototype based, simula was early class based (though they didn't use those terms yet). It's likely they were developed mostly independently; OO just arises naturally when design is based on linguistic concepts like subjects, nouns, and things they can do. What we know of UI today is more an artifact of smalltalk (both the first GUIs and smaltalk came out of parc and were related).
kxo 12y ago
React, sort of, if you ignore the underlying clusterfuck that is the DOM. https://github.com/swannodette/om https://github.com/swannodette/om
GFK_of_xmaspast 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Athena_Widgets http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Athena_Widgets ?

daxelrod 12y ago

This is no accident. Smalltalk was developed at Xerox PARC and included an MVC interface toolkit. http://st-www.cs.illinois.edu/users/smarch/st-docs/mvc.html http://st-www.cs.illinois.edu/users/smarch/st-docs/mvc.html

chriswarbo 12y ago

Maybe some of these would interest you? https://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Applications_and_libraries/GUI_libraries https://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Applications_and_librari...

CoffeeDregs 12y ago

I think the functional people took a whack at this question with functional, reactive programming. Some links: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2672791/is-functional-gui-programming-possible http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2672791/is-functional-gui... http://blog.reactiveprogramming.org/ http://blog.reactiveprogramming.org/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1028250/what-is-functional-reactive-programming http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1028250/what-is-functiona...

kps 12y ago

It's only slightly oversimplifying to say that OO was invented for a GUI, namely Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad in the early '60s, and then developed with direct correspondence to physical objects in mind (Simula 67) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USyoT_Ha_bA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USyoT_Ha_bA - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simula http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simula - The Development of the Simula Languages in HOPL I if you can get it, else http://phobos.ramapo.edu/~ldant/datascope/simula%20history.pdf http://phobos.ramapo.edu/~ldant/datascope/simula%20history.p...

seanmcdirmid 12y ago
Sketchpad was prototype based, simula was early class based (though they didn't use those terms yet). It's likely they were developed mostly independently; OO just arises naturally when design is based on linguistic concepts like subjects, nouns, and things they can do. What we know of UI today is more an artifact of smalltalk (both the first GUIs and smaltalk came out of parc and were related).

kxo 12y ago

React, sort of, if you ignore the underlying clusterfuck that is the DOM. https://github.com/swannodette/om https://github.com/swannodette/om

GFK_of_xmaspast 12y ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Athena_Widgets http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Athena_Widgets ?