Re: [Haskell-cafe] extending the notion of notation

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 4:37 AM, John Meacham wrote:

I dunno, I think makefiles might give them a run for the money when it comes to declarative functional languages out there. and they are monadic too!

Yes. Makefile programming is declarative programming indeed. Makefiles are textfiles though. So to return to the theme of "Can programming be liberated from textfiles?", I posited spreadsheets as a form of programming with no textfiles in sight. -- Kim-Ee