Also, the flappy bird example doesn't render properly in Firefox, at least for me.
On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Nick H <falling.maso...@gmail.com> wrote: > Embedding the code in its documentation is a very interesting idea. I can > see it being very useful for tutorials & libraries. (The examples were > pleasant to read through.) But generally I try to avoid comments in favor > of making the code self-documenting. Comments are a liability -- it's easy > for them to get out of sync with the code, and the compiler cannot stop > them from lying to the user. > > So this literate programming approach can reduce the maintenance cost of > documentation where documentation is needed. But I worry that if so much > emphasis is placed on the documentation, maybe there is less incentive to > make the programming language itself readable. > > This is just a general thought. I don't mean to criticize Eve's > readability in particular. Lord knows we get enough people throwing stones > at Elm because they can't understand it after just a few minutes :-P > > Thanks for sharing this. I'll be interested to see where it goes. > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Erkal Selman <erkalsel...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I wonder, what the elm community thinks about Eve: http://witheve.com/ ? >> Here is the syntax reference: https://witheve.git >> hub.io/assets/docs/SyntaxReference.pdf >> >> I think that this language/architecture is worth to look at. >> It has many similarities with elm. >> But it is more like logic programming. (Is this the logic programming of >> the future?) >> >> I was following this project from far and I had the impression that he >> (Chris Granger) was doing some kind of excel. >> But now I see that they can do flappy bird in eve: >> http://play.witheve.com/#/examples/flappy.eve >> That is exciting! >> >> Is there something similar to Eve? >> It really looks like something new. >> >> My main question: >> What do you think, are advantages and disadvantages of Eve, if you >> compare it with Elm. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Elm Discuss" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
