On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Neil Mitchell wrote:
Hi
Flippi (google: Haskell Flippi)
...and yet haskell.org uses WikiMedia? (Which is written in something bizzare like Perl...)
Yes, but WikiMedia is a result of years of work, Flippi is a lot less.
The original version was the result of a certain amount of thinking, an overnight hack and a few tweaks :-)
Have you ever played with KLogic? You draw boxes and lines, and it makes some logic. (As in the digital electronics sense of "logic".)
I have some (very expensive) software called Reaktor. You draw boxes and lines, it does DSP algorithms. You build synthesizers and effects boxes with it.
That sounds exactly like PureData - you can also do graphics as well with PureData, the demo I saw was very cool. Of course, PureData is written in C with Haskell as an extension language.
Reaktor is rather nicer to use than PureData though, in that it's designed to work with mainstream sequencers (or any VST - I work with trackers myself) and be used by non-hackers. Also, I'm not entirely sure it's fair to say that it has Haskell as an extension language as such - but Claude's slides'll give a better explanation than I can.
The last two ideas you mentioned require a graphical user interface, which is an area of Haskell which is comparatively weak, compared to the rest of Haskell.
Yep. It would be nice to have a library for doing that kind of stuff though, I suspect there're many nifty projects that would be easy to implement once that was done - Haskell's good at manipulating the underlying structures. -- flippa@flippac.org "The reason for this is simple yet profound. Equations of the form x = x are completely useless. All interesting equations are of the form x = y." -- John C. Baez