From: Ken Rose <kenrose@tfb.com>
To: Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] graphical notation/representation of functional programs?
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:12:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E553696.732B8541@tfb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030220164049.GA762@first.in-berlin.de>
Oliver Bandel wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> when using graphical representations like in
> "The Craft of Functional Programming", so that
> a function is a box with in- and output, then
> it's a convenient way of looking at functional
> programs.
>
> Is that technique of overview more elaborated
> used by other people?
>
> Shouldn't it possible to have a graphical notation
> for FP, like a functional aequivalent of the notation,
> that is used in the OO-programmers world, where
> classes and methods and attributes and so on
> are presentated in a graphical manner?
>
> Are there papers on that topic?
> Or is functional programming in higher spheres
> done comepletely an algebraic form 8lambda calculus)?
I don't know of anything formal, but the dataflow diagrams used in some
structured analysis methods feel pretty functional to me. See, for
example "Modern Structured Analysis" Edward Yourdon, 1989.
- ken
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2003-02-20 16:40 Oliver Bandel
2003-02-20 20:12 ` Ken Rose [this message]
2003-02-21 9:04 ` Jocelyn Sérot
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