Re:Taxonomies of Visual Programming (1990) [pdf]
by jpaulmorrison on Monday February 08, 2021 @02:29PM
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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
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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!
Re:Taxonomies of Visual Programming (1990) [pdf]
by DonHopkins on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @03:39AM
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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? ;)