Enterprise Piet

https://leanpub.com/piet

by raganwald • 14 years ago

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jiry• 14 years ago

My enterprise document approval workflow management software has never looked so beautiful. Thank you Enterprise Piet!

cmkrnl2• 14 years ago

What about Oracle database connectivity? Does this implementation come with drivers?

raganwald5• 14 years ago

Thanks for the feedback. I will be adding a section about two-dimensional query optimization in PL/SQL. I have to finish my work on animation using the Broadway Boogie Woogie framework first.

cmkrnl2• 14 years ago

Thank you for your response.

gagege2• 14 years ago

I'm still waiting for "Malbolge for Small Businesses".

Anyone know when that's coming out?

Vivtek• 14 years ago

Isn't the strict insistence on two-dimensionality a little restrictive?

davidw• 14 years ago

I heard that the latest version of Mentifex will be written in Piet.

pendext• 14 years ago

I'd like to see a Piet program where the program output was the same as the 'code' for the program itself.

raganwald5• 14 years ago

I'll add that as a sample program in the appendix.

nthitz2• 14 years ago

http://mamememo.blogspot.com/2009/10/piet-quine.html unfortunately not very aesthetically pleasing. More from the author here: http://yusuke.endoh.usesthis.com/

nandemo• 14 years ago

His quine relay is impressive:

http://asiajin.com/blog/2009/09/22/uroboros-programming-with...

sturadnidge• 14 years ago

The video alone is almost enough to warrant purchase, but does it provide a framework for data analysis of matrix management performance review metrics in global ITIL organisations?

incision• 14 years ago

I'm not sure about your use case, but it has certainly helped us identify new synergies between our verticals while disrupting traditional silos.

peterarmstrong• 14 years ago

Enterprise Piet has also produced the rapid deployment of a Leanpub feature, enabling a synergy between books in this genre and books in a more traditional genre.

nthitz2• 14 years ago

This is a joke right?

raganwald5• 14 years ago

I'd normally say "yes, absolutely," but then again, "compared to what?"

Have to seen what passes for Enterprise Software Development tools? Netron Fusion uses Bassett Frame Technology to factor COBOL programs using techniques originally devised for representing knowledge ontologies in LISP-based AI systems.

COBOL + Lisp = $$$.

nahname• 14 years ago

It shouldn't be this hard to figure out. Software development, what have we done?

masklinn• 14 years ago

> It shouldn't be this hard to figure out.

I don't know, MUMPS is used in production systems...

38252• 14 years ago

>Piet programs are represented by a patented and revolutionary arrangement of codels

Since when is being patented a virtue in programming language design?

raganwald5• 14 years ago

You don't buy a lot of software by the seat and/or CPU, do you?

;-)

38252• 14 years ago

You are correct. I am pretty much never involved in purchasing/acquisition details. I just tell managers I need some particular software and they go and do some voodoo and come back to say yes or no

jpadvo• 14 years ago

This is hilarious, of course, but it also points to some really interesting languages. Turns out that fungeoid is an actual category of fascinating experimental / toy / joke languages. Obviously Piet is not particularly useful in the real world, but thinking about languages like this has got to be good for a programmer's mind.

For example, try thinking about what kinds of things this language would be useful for. Or if a similar visualization for an existing language would be useful. Unlock your mind and let it roam...

In case you didn't click the link in the article [1], here's part of what Wikipedia has to say:

"A funge is an esoteric programming language which models its programs as metric spaces with coordinate systems (often, but not necessarily, Cartesian) and which execute instructions located at points in their program space by moving an instruction pointer (a position vector which indicates the currently executing instruction) through that space."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funge#Funges

nuclear_eclipse• 14 years ago

The most obvious "useful" ability of Piet comes in calculating Pi: http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html

Of note from the sample program, emphasis mine: "... this amazing program which calculates an approximation of pi literally by dividing a circular area by the radius twice. ... Naturally, a more accurate value can be obtained by using a bigger program."

regehr• 14 years ago

Reminds me of this old obfuscated C contest entry:

http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~manuel/obfuscate/pi.c

raganwald5• 14 years ago

Did anyone notice the Brainfuck interpreter written in Piet? The mind re-boggles... Or repurposes it as an Enterprise Workflow DSL

jberryman• 14 years ago

I implemented befunge, and one of the challenges is figuring out whether your implementation is buggy or the test program you're using is. Luckily I found that some insane person had written this incredible test suite:

http://users.tkk.fi/~mniemenm/befunge/mycology.html

There's some other amazing stuff there.

richy_rich• 14 years ago

Whilst testing PowerShell for an employer I write a bf implementation in it. I was stumped for a while when I couldn't get one of the examples from wikipedia to run until I noticed that the code in the wiki article was broken. Correcting the article was probably my greatest contribution to computer science.

minimax• 14 years ago

Ruby had blocks way before Piet even existed. Welcome to the 1990s.

jamessun• 14 years ago

I don't design enterprise software often, but when I do, I prefer loose neoplastic principles. Stay curious, my friends.

tsukikage• 14 years ago

The forward-thinking architect will, naturally, consider the judicious use of open source software such as https://github.com/sl236/Piet to streamline enterprise development.

citizenparker• 14 years ago

Enterprise Piet? Seems like the OP is just adding more additional features that takes Piet even further away from simplicity.

Ironically, Piet is, an RGB in the land of greyscale PICS. They broke the abstraction layers, mess up logic with implementation, introduce not just different kinds of colors but redundant and irrelevant dark colors and ruined the magic of "everything is an alpha value." Look what a classic two tone Hello World became.)

graue• 14 years ago

Nice job riffing on a criticism of Clojure from another of today's threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4697874

steverb• 14 years ago

As a color-blind developer I find this unnerving.

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