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From: S.Clayman@cs.ucl.ac.uk
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Subject: Re: Industry-Strength Rapid Prototyping with Functional Prog?
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Date: 25 Mar 91 23:33:10 GMT
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Cameron Laird writes:
>> 
>> I'm not primarily looking for a textbook reference, although
>> any advice will get my attention.  What I want are some
>> down-to-earth words, perhaps on this model:  "Sure, the
>> usual model for UI is a dialogue--the user does something,
>> the computer does something, the user does something else,
>> and so on.  All this temporal sequencing seems antithetical
>> to FP principles, and of course the usual ways of imple-
>> menting the state of the dialogue make a funny joke in FP
>> circles; however, the way we see it is {FILL-IN-THIS-BLANK}."
>> 
Have a look at
%A A. Dwelly
%T Functions and Dynamic User Interfaces
%R Proc. FPCA 89
%I ACM
%P 371-381
%D 1989


>> A postscript:  if someone knows what FP environment is free,
>> easy-to-install on a PC or SPARCstation, and good practice
>> for autodidacts, I'm ready to listen.

We use Miranda here. It's not free but we've found it gives
good all round behaviour. It has it's quirks but.....

stuart