Subject: Re: The Groovy Programming Language
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 06:25:38 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <JcCcne_yQ4DfCMTd3czS-g@speakeasy.net>
<RobertMaas@YahooGroups.Com> wrote:
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| One thing I've never seen but would like is data pipelining, like the
| Unix pipe between processes except it'd be done by drawing a line
| between output and input ports of icons of processes rather than
| writing | syntax between text descriptions of processes.
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Google for "ProGraph", a language which did exactly that, with relational
databases as well as low-level constructs. Hmmm... In fact, you might find
<URL:http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/inf/Kluge/calendar/program.html#7>
and/or <URL:http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-312.html#lnk7> to be
interesting.

Actually, there's been *lot* of work in the area of "visual" programming
languages. <URL:http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~wjh/papers/bakeoff.html> has a
lot of nice cute pictures of various languages (circa 1994).


-Rob

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