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0 pointsDonHopkins10y ago0 comments

Your demos look wonderful and I'm looking forward to installing it and giving it the time it deserves, so I can give you more feedback.

Stack based languages resonate with me as a Forth and PostScript programmer!

Please check out this pie menu based visual PostScript debugger for NeWS, called the PSIBER Space Deck, which I hope inspires you, and I'll be glad to answer questions about: http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/97 Source: http://donhopkins.com/home/code/litecyber.ps.txt

One nice thing about PostScript is that it's homoiconic: PostScript code is just PostScript data. So that lets you use a data structure editor as a code editor.

It had a generic set of pie menus that applied to all objects for editing the view and doing standard copy/paste/edit/eval operations, but there was also one object-type-specific submenu to the north-east. So there was a common set of gestures across all objects, that you could learn to use easily.

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pschanely10y ago

This is amazing. In 1989. And here we are in 2015, looking at data by feverishly flipping arrows in collapsable trees in eclipse. I just don't get it.

I am somewhat in love with homoiconicity; perhaps no other revelation in CS mattered more to me than that discovery when learning scheme. Here's the one sticking point that I couldn't figure out: how to live without closures. Building up a quoted hunk of code and injecting the right values in the right places just seems so much less clear. Thoughts?

Maybe it's just a matter of having the right helper functions, like something that does printf-style substitution for quoted programs?

And I'll need another hour to go through all those other links above, but I'm excited about it! More later.

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