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Re:Malleable Systems: Software must be as easy to change as ... by jcelerier on Monday April 13, 2020 @06:49PM (#22861033)
plenty of people use software such as Max/MSP, PureData to do exactly that
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Re:Malleable Systems: Software must be as easy to change as ... by denster on Monday April 13, 2020 @07:01PM (#22861114)
The issue is that FBP (flow based programming) scales to a certain point of complexity.

After that, it stops being more effective than a textual representation or (gasp!) even old fashioned imperative programming.

As a result, we need new approaches for more powerful tooling that scales better along the axis of complexity (for the idea / thing we want to create)

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