[Haskell-cafe] The Good, the Bad and the GUI

[Alberto G. Corona]

2014-08-12 10:31 GMT+02:00 Wojtek Narczyński <wojtek at power.com.pl>:

> On 12.08.2014 01:14, Alberto G. Corona wrote:
>
>> Wojtek. What you say is exactly what has been solved time ago by fomlets
>> in Web interfaces.  There are many formlet library and almost all haskell
>> web framework use formlets.
>>
>>  AFAIK, formlets at the server are very much like PHP, only with neater
> syntax, strong typing, and the like. Formlets tutorials teach you to put
> all your validation into the GUI, you really can't do much worse.
>

I think that this horizontal separating the GUI from his application logic
is a wrong conception of separation of concern.. as strange as it may
sound, since that makes applications and components non composable. The MVC
model is non composable!

A better separation of concern, for many purposes, is the vertical one in
which each functionality include its own interface, logic and data model.
The obstacle for implementing this kind of separation of concern is mainly
technological, because each of the three layes uses different languages, so
an horizontal separation is easier. But it is not appropriate for most
purposes. It is very bad for creating GUIs!!

http://haskell-web.blogspot.com.es/2014/05/separation-of-concerns-by-problem.html





>
> But, Alberto, your client side formlets look very interesting. I printed
> your Monad.Reader paper, and I'm definitely going to explore your ideas.


Thanks!

>
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Wojtek Narczyński
>



-- 
Alberto.
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