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@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?
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