From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=SPF_NEUTRAL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 903D9BC6B for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:11:17 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAACc4KEfAXQImh2dsb2JhbACOZAIBCAop X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,351,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="3774214" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 31 Oct 2007 16:11:17 +0100 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l9VFBGOv005561 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:11:17 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAKc3KEdA6aq9nmdsb2JhbACOZAIBAQcEBhEY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,351,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="18806909" Received: from rn-out-0910.google.com (HELO rn-out-0102.google.com) ([64.233.170.189]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 31 Oct 2007 16:11:16 +0100 Received: by rn-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id e24so62650rng for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:11:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=3OF9OUuFI8kH/63/ljXvb8C2hT/oDk27Eui5KFWr6+M=; b=kUh0B7pd7sMWcxIXFaKGggaBGU9vobxBO6cdYjDp42QSyO1sYjlI/6oNTIBui8L+6isi/992XDkhezDijMY8B46U4jNbSPWgycBfiHlMnFq8pBoQI6Ddnp21V/cMzmPOvXgsDxmoNiFKCK2ICmdJlIISVcV+qywDW0+yEexloZ8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ikIuqFUUeiC+sb+MGqc6ov9dM/MeHZNQF4PfON1FuHms+E5WUHu6f8rVZzPyKjYh9Za/3iq+mm+uBlh2cGFKcsikvxXuBrezhI5a778nEPxGYHjqMyLPo6Ehb+rfnMQnUDTj8OSXgkM6HB6YQnRZa25BnwBxcSbUYxaRkFpG2aA= Received: by 10.142.82.17 with SMTP id f17mr2076716wfb.1193843473661; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:11:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.135.17 with HTTP; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:11:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4d029f7e0710310811o14014a1bq4a588b385cc18dbe@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:11:13 -0400 From: "Lars Nilsson" To: "David Teller" Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Idea for an open-source project Cc: OCaml In-Reply-To: <1193834843.6677.39.camel@Blefuscu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1193834843.6677.39.camel@Blefuscu> X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 47289B14.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; nilsson:01 univ-orleans:01 vaguely:01 wikipedia:01 wiki:01 nilsson:01 toolbar:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 argument:02 match:02 programming:03 programming:03 let:03 types:05 On 10/31/07, David Teller wrote: > Let me detail the idea a bit more. The IDE looks like a vector-drawing > program, with a number of building blocks available for use in the > toolbar. Each block is actually either one function or one control flow > statement. Blocks may have holes on the top (one for each argument), on > the bottom (one for each return value) or in the inside (one for each > other block it may contain). Each hole has a name, which is often not > displayed. Holes may then be connected with lines to specify > composition, as long as types do match. Sounds to me like you're looking for something vaguely similar to Jackson Structured Programming. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Structured_Programming Lars Nilsson