[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Introducing Sifflet, visual functional programming language

[Gregory D. Weber]

No, it's aimed at beginning-level programming students,
especially those who are struggling with the idea of
recursion.  

So, not only is it not intended as a full-featured real world
programming language, but it is definitely not suited for
that purpose:
-- Very small set of build-in functions.
-- Currently, no way to handle higher-order functions
   or local variables (let or where expressions).
-- Interpreted.
-- Stack size limited to 1000.  Of course, that could be changed,
   but the limit is there for a reason: if a beginning programmer
   writes a function that is called recursively 1000 times before
   it gets to the base case, it's probably an error (infinite recursion).

Greg

On 2010-May-14, Ivan Miljenovic wrote:
> On 14 May 2010 11:50, Gregory D. Weber <gdweber at iue.edu> wrote:
> > Introducing Sifflet -- version 0.1.5, first public release!
> >
> > Sifflet is a visual, functional programming language.
> > Sifflet programmers define functions by drawing diagrams.
> > Sifflet shows how a function call is evaluated on the diagram.
> > It is intended as an aid for learning about recursion.
> 
> So is Sifflet meant to be a full-featured programming language used
> for "real world" programs?  If so, how well does it scale?
> 
> -- 
> Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
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