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Re:Taxonomies of Visual Programming (1990) [pdf] by DonHopkins on Monday February 08, 2021 @01:01AM (#26061279)
By the way, something I always meant to ask you, Brad:

How does "C32" fit into your acronym theme of gemstones and rocks? Is it a teeny tiny 4x4x2 carbon atom block of diamond? How many carats would that be?

>Brad Myers wrote several articles in that book about his work on PERIDOT and GARNET, and he also developed C32:

>C32: CMU's Clever and Compelling Contribution to Computer Science in CommonLisp which is Customizable and Characterized by a Complete Coverage of Code and Contains a Cornucopia of Creative Constructs, because it Can Create Complex, Correct Constraints that are Constructed Clearly and Concretely, and Communicated using Columns of Cells, that are Constantly Calculated so they Change Continuously, and Cancel Confusion

>Spreadsheet-like system that allows constraints on objects to be specified by demonstration. Intelligent cut and paste. Implemented using Garnet.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/acronyms.html

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Re:Taxonomies of Visual Programming (1990) [pdf] by jpaulmorrison on Monday February 08, 2021 @02:29PM (#26068982)
That's a great acronym, but IMHO the acronym I came up with for the first iteration of FBP was also pretty good: DOORMAT (Data-Oriented Organization Running Multiple Asynchronous Tasks)! However, it was deemed to be lacking in gravitas!
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Re:Taxonomies of Visual Programming (1990) [pdf] by BradAMyers on Monday February 08, 2021 @09:31PM (#26073205)
C32 doesn't follow the general convention of my group of naming after gemstones or kinds of minerals, but I think it is fun. Very few of our systems strive for gravitas!
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Re:Taxonomies of Visual Programming (1990) [pdf] by DonHopkins on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @03:39AM (#26075189)
My transparently paned contribution of "GLASS" for "Graphical Layer And Server Simplifier" was technically a mineral, but not a very precious one. But it was great for making windows! Too bad it kept shattering because ugly X11 was on one side of it and beautiful Lisp was on the other. But at least you can cut "GLASS" to make fake gemstones of "PASTE".

https://www.gemselect.com/english/other-info/paste-gems.php

Did you ever write any projects in Ruby? ;)

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