Hi Sebastian,
a guy which starts by saying that no GUI toolkit of significance were
written in FP, and forget to link or cite Garnet (by B. Myers) (Common
Lisp) is, how to say, intriguing.
Doesn't bode well for the well researched :(
Thierry
Le 15/02/2015 14:08, Sebastian Sastre a écrit :
Hi guys,
I saw the interest in GUI lately and today I come across this really
well researched master thesis paper that can put some light on how good
we can perform in the GUI spectrum in terms of practicality,
expressivity and productivity
Introduction
Even though OOP was born with the SIMULA programming language in the
1960s [15], it was Smalltalk that coupled GUI development with the OOP
paradigm [25]. Smalltalk’s inventor Alan Kay was inspired by SIMULA,
among other influences, to create a new language for graphics-oriented
applications leveraging the OOP paradigm – and the rest is history [24].
Ever since Smalltalk successfully showed the promise of OOP for GUI
development a great deal of subsequent OOP languages and, particularly,
object-oriented GUI toolkits came into existence and eventually into the
mainstream. Nearly all mainstream programming languages today directly
support the OOP paradigm and there is hardly any widely used GUI toolkit
that does not use OOP. Various popular examples of toolkits like Cocoa,
WinForms, Qt, wxWidgets, Tk, Swing and GTK+1 all seem to validate the
notion of OOP and GUI development being a good fit.
continues: http://www.eugenkiss.com/projects/thesis.pdf
And it seems it triggered this movement of people that are open to
receive implementations of the seven dimensions of this benchmark in his
repo:
https://github.com/eugenkiss/7guis/wiki
I beleive Pharo can score nicely there and if would be a Pharo
implementation there a whole new audience (that we probably aren't
reaching now) might take a serious try
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