On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Shahbaz wrote:

In the mailing list announcement, one of the potential uses of this library is "automatic recompilation/re-execution." This sounds very interesting, is there more information? Is this at all similar to "Living it up with a Live Programming Language" [http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2149] ?

Conal could probably elaborate further on that one, but he may be referring to Eros [http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Eros]. Eros is a system where there is no distinction between written code and running code.

Also, are there any tutorials that show how this library can be used (rather than just explaining semantics)?

Indeed! I'm writing a set of tutorials and the first is already available. http://netsuperbrain.com/blog/posts/introducing-reactive-events/ David -- David Sankel Sankel Software www.sankelsoftware.com

The "automatic recompilation/re-execution" thing is an idea I've been kicking around for a couple of years. Compilers and linkers are (mostly) pure functions, and can be decomposed in to simpler pure functions. Source code, object code, executables, sample input data, and sample output data are all time-varying values. So a subset of Reactive could be used to automatically recompile, relink, and re-execute. The result would be a more accurate/efficient version of 'make' without the possibility of incorrect rules. - Conal On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Shahbaz wrote:

In the mailing list announcement, one of the potential uses of this library is "automatic recompilation/re-execution." This sounds very interesting, is there more information? Is this at all similar to "Living it up with a Live Programming Language" [http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2149] ?

Also, are there any tutorials that show how this library can be used (rather than just explaining semantics)?

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