Graphical Programming Environments (was: ANNOUNCE: Release of Vit al, an interactive visual programming environment for Haskell)

2003-11-13 Thread Markus . Schnell
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

Re: Graphical Programming Environments (was: ANNOUNCE: Release of Vit al, an interactive visual programming environment for Haskell)

2003-11-13 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
W licie z czw, 13-11-2003, godz. 10:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] pisze: 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. I still doubt it would be more convenient. Maybe it's just me, but I

Re: Graphical Programming Environments (was: ANNOUNCE: Release of Vit al, an interactive visual programming environment for Haskell)

2003-11-13 Thread David Barton
I love religious wars. Having been around awhile, I make a prediction. This will thrash a while, those who like graphical environments will make their points, those who like textual environments will make their points, no one will convince anyone else, and eventually it will die down. In fact