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Re:Luna: Visual and textual functional programming language by xaduha on Sunday February 21, 2016 @05:38PM (#11146987)
Depends on what you call code. It produces XML file of that format, there are "source" and "download" buttons.
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Re:Luna: Visual and textual functional programming language by wdanilo on Sunday February 21, 2016 @09:14PM (#11147945)
By code I mean programming language code - something you enjoy to use and program with. Do you enjoy XML to program with? :D
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Re:Luna: Visual and textual functional programming language by xaduha on Sunday February 21, 2016 @10:26PM (#11148218)
That's neither here, nor there. There are things like AST, various Lisps, etc. It's in the same realm as XSLT, you're not going to go as far as not calling it a programming language, are you?

With a proper IDE support it's no harder to write than Lisp. So by that definition

> EMC XProc Designer cannot translate graphical representation to code and vice versa.

the answer is yes, it can.

But the most popular tool in this category probably was Yahoo Pipes. They closed Yahoo Pipes.

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