On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:47:08 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:

>> I remember reading/hearing about Rational Rose.  It sounded fairly
>> interesting.
> 
> "Roses are Rational"...
> 
> It was an OK product. A little buggy though. Still, I think we had a
> fairly old version.

If roses are rational, what are violets?

>>> 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.
> 
> Haskell is somewhat odd in that *parsing* Haskell source code is quite
> hard. However, if you're drawing boxes and lines, there's no parsing to
> do, so... ;-)

So have a go at it.  If anything, you might learn something from the 
effort. :-)

> I suspect certain programs are going to come out looking great this way,
> while others will come out looking like spaggetti!

That certainly was true in AppWare/MicroBrew.  Especially with modules 
that took multiple inputs and outputs.

Jim

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