> > I've sometimes thought that a functional language would be > the ideal > > platform to usher in a purely graphical style of programming; > > I don't understand why so many people talk about graphical > programming, > i.e. putting together functions, arguments, definitins etc. with the > mouse instead of the keyboard, drawing arrows instead of naming etc. > > No wonder it didn't succeed. It would be much less convenient than > typing text and less readable too.
That's not necessarily correct. If 'graphical' isn't taken too literally, you can think of a dialog per function with the possibility to specify pre and post conditions, tests, comments, etc. Then it would be possible to view only things your are interested in: default code, exception handling, interfaces, ... without cluttering the screen with 'code of no interest'. I agree that putting together programs just by click and point would be tedious. But _viewing_ programs this way could be advantagous. What do you think? Best wishes, Markus _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
