[Haskell] Beyond ASCII only editors for Haskell

[Mads Lindstrøm]

Reginald Meeson wrote:

> Mads --
> 
> Eons ago, colleagues and I put together a primitive data flow diagram
> editor and generated functional code for the functions users wired
> together.  One of the things we learned was that people would happily
> wire together diagrams with state components that could not be
> translated because they did not represent functions.  (Two different
> data flow paths sharing the same state creates obvious race conditions,
> but that's what some people wanted to draw.)
> 
> It was an interesting exercise to build the tool, but I don't think
> it gave users any great advantage.  Perhaps is was a shortcoming of
> the tool, which was little more than a prototype.  However, the
> informal nature of data flow diagramming at that time seemed to be
> out of synch with the rigor needed for programming.  Good luck with
> your search -- it may be a good time to try it again.

Do you have any papers or other kind of documentation describing the
system? what worked and what did not work?

-- 
Mads Lindstrøm <mads_lindstroem at yahoo.dk>