On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:16:19 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:

> The point being, just because you only have to add "1 button" doesn't
> mean it's "easy". There still has to be a whole stack of control logic
> behind that one button, you might have to radically restructure the
> innards of the program to add this feature, etc. But hey, "anything is
> easy for the person who does not have to implement it". ;-)

Absolutely, I certainly wouldn't denie that.

> FWIW, I used something called... uh... I think it was Rational Rose UML
> or something. Draw various UML diagrams (class diagrams, use case
> diagrams, event and state diagrams, etc.) and it builds runnable code
> that does it. (At least, if you pay out enough money.) It's nowhere near
> as easy is just *typing* the code yourself though. (Probably makes
> refactoring much easier though...)

I remember reading/hearing about Rational Rose.  It sounded fairly 
interesting.

> I think it would be quite neat (and in principle easy) if Haskell had
> such a tool. (I.e., a "draw boxes and lines and it makes a runnable
> program".) However, there is no pre-existing Haskell compiler or
> interpretter that could be easily linked to such a system, and I'm not
> aware of any toolkit for doing the whole "drawing boxes and lines" part.

There's a coding project you could play with. :-)

Jim

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