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Article #843Event-driven programs in FP (Was: Re: Industry-Strength Rapid Proto...
From: Norman Graham
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1991 03:13
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1991 03:13
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From article <1991Mar22.141414.26226@lgc.com>, by cl@lgc.com (Cameron Laird):
> My daily work for the last few years has involved a lot of
> UI considerations. In 1991, I've been Xprogramming. As-
> sume with me that X is a commercial success, but that
> event-driven paradigms are a hurdle for many coders and
> engineers. How do mature FP thinkers react to this?
IMO, event-driven FP programs should be thought of as a mapping from
E to M, where E is an infinite list of events and M is an infinite list
of messages to the UI-Toolbox/Operating System.
I've not given this a great deal of thought: I'm sure others can provide
better thought out solutions.
--Norm
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