Thanks for bringing the discussion back on track. That's a great list of contexts & links.
David On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Raju Bitter <rajubit...@googlemail.com>wrote: > Thanks for posting the link. I've been following Bret Victor's blog > and the stuff he has been doing for some time. > > Bret has built some very impressive UIs using OpenLaszlo, and he is a > fan of the technology and the expressiveness of the LZX language for > building UIs. OpenLaszlo was created by bunch of smart folks and > Lispers, including Oliver Steele (worked for Apple on Dylan), Max > Carlson, Tucker Withington (worked for Symbolics and Harlequin, > implemented the GC for Dylan when Apple hired Harlequin to work on the > language), and Henry Minsky (Marvin Minsky's son). > http://osteele.com/ > http://pt.withy.org/ > > Here's an old gestural zoom/pan demo Bret built with OpenLaszlo: > http://worrydream.com/GesturalZoomAndPan/ > > OpenLaszlo's LZX language uses a declarative approach to building UIs > and highly interactive applications (check this video of the Laszlo > Dashboard, which was created in 2002/2003 http://vimeo.com/14206607). > LZX is a mixture of XML tags + JavaScript, which initially was > compiled into SWF bytecode. In 2007 Laszlo added cross-compilation to > JavaScript (DHTML runtime) to the platform, and in 2009 > cross-compilation to ActionScript 3 (which is then compiled into SWF > using the Flex SDK). > > Here's a video of the LzPix application, the first OpenLaszlo app to > cross-compile to JavaScript > http://vimeo.com/32853986 > > My technology dream-team for client development would be ClojureScript > combined with OpenLaszlo (has a powerful view kernel with interesting > stuff like constraints, datapath mapping using xpath, simple yet > powerful animation APIs). Instead of using XML + JavaScript, I'd > prefer to use a more Clojure/Lisp like syntax to build UIs with > OpenLaszlo in combination with ClojureScript. There's a slight chance > that we can get the OpenLaszlo Lisp folks interested in integrating > OpenLaszlo with ClojureScript (they are all working at Nest Labs now), > and I'm sure that Bret Victor would love the combination as a tool for > building some awesome prototypes. > > - Raju > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
