Where's my simulator? Simulated effect absent from the programming experience

https://shalabh.com/programmable-systems/wheres-my-simulator.html

by TuringTest • 7 years ago

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TuringTest3• 7 years ago

I've got a "thisguygetsit" label for tagging web essays showing an insightful description of the fundamental problems of modern computation.

I've tagged this article with it.

vokep• 7 years ago

What are you using to tag things in this way? I agree entirely and would love to build a collection of "this one gets it"

TuringTest3• 6 years ago

I'm using Pocket, though I'm planning to install TagSpaces on my NAS and migrate both my notes and bookmarks to it.

shalabhc• 6 years ago

Thank you for the implicit praise!

Seems like this would be an interesting list of essays - is it publicly shared?

andeee23• 7 years ago

I mostly skimmed the article but isn’t he basically talking about Lisp and the REPL? He dis mention Smalltalk but i’m pretty sure it adopted the interactivity from Lisps.

TuringTest3• 6 years ago

You don't get instant live update of existing variables in a REPL. The programming paradigm described is called Reactive Functional, it's the model popularized by spreadsheets.

However, spreadsheets can't create new objects programatically; new libraries for web development (React, Vue.js) are popularizing the model, but so far they're using reactive components just for high-level components, not the whole line-by-line program execution. Bret Victor's "Learnable Programming" concept (linked at the end) shows how you could apply the approach to a whole textual program.

Where's my simulator? Simulated effect absent from the programming experience

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