Hi Jose,
I'm building something that has ideas borrowed from Jupyter notebook[a],
Leo Editor[b] and Pharo/Smalltalk and few other original ones. The more
I see the connections between stuff like Eve[1], org-mode[2], Jupyter
Lab[3], I think that the time for literate computing[4] (a development
beyond literal programming), reproducible research and live coding is
coming.
[a] http://jupyter.org/
[b] http://leoeditor.com/
[1]
https://hackernoon.com/smalltalk-and-protein-programming-4da245ac93e2#.2riwbeeia
[2] https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v046i03
[3] http://jupyterlab.github.io/jupyterlab/
[4]
http://blog.jupyter.org/2015/07/07/project-jupyter-computational-narratives-as-the-engine-of-collaborative-data-science/
These ideas are about expanding programming beyond programmers, for
other professionals and authors that need to use computational thinking
to tackle and talk about complex issues and themes. My approach is that
these authors are going to use document as the central metaphor for
their work (in a similar way to Mathematica notebooks) and that's why
Grafoscopio is using the notebook as the organizing concept.
Grafoscopio's interactive notebooks are tree-like documents, and soon
you will be able to create custom tags to traverse them, and produce
several outputs, from a single document.
Having Pharo as a base for the Grafoscopio development brings a powerful
environment to crystallize and explore several of the literate computing
ideas. For example, Eve's idea of "programming without order" is already
possible in Pharo (of course in both environments, you will be send to
the debugger to define what is missing). Also you can use document as
the central metaphor for organizing thinking (not classes, or protocols,
or messages) while enjoying of a continuous environment to connect
documents with Domain Specific Languages made with this "classical"
objects thinking.
Grafoscopio is my first "app" and the one I made to learn
Pharo/Smalltalk. If you are interested in exploring the literate
computing ideas in Pharo, you're welcomed to our community. I can be
your peer teach what I have learned so far, and learn with you. We have
a low traffic Spanish mailing list[5], but we can handle English there
also (or in this mailing list), and our fossil repository for
documentation and issues[6].
[5] http://mutabit.com/grafoscopio/index.en.html#contacto
[6] http://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/grafoscopio/
Now I'm improving the English documentation (we have a local Spanish
first approach for documentation) so you will have a better introduction
to Grafoscopio, its usage and its community. I'll notify the community
when is done.
Cheers,
Offray
On 23/01/17 09:42, Jose San Leandro wrote:
Hi,
I've come across this new attempt to bring Literate Programming to the
masses.
http://www.witheve.com/
It all seem to come from Jupyter Notebook.
I'd love to build something like that in Pharo, but I currently lack
the skills needed. Any suggestions on how to start? Would you use
Seaside, Pillar, ...?
