[Soc-2011-dev] weekly progress reports

[Jason Wilkins]

I was just thinking this semester about how composting software has an
implicit programming language.

Just a suggestion, a good fit for a language for nodes is most likely
a functional data-flow language.  A language like Lustre fits the
bill.

Languages like Puredata, Lab-View, and other visual languages may also
be worth looking at, although I'm not sure if those have a text
representation (although, languages don't literally have to be text,
they can exist purely as a parse tree, similar to Lisp).

Data-flow and lazy evaluation are similar concepts and I think either
would work well.

Your project sounds like its right up my alley (it matches my research
area), wish I could do it :)

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Sven von Brand <svbrandl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 1) what you did this week
>
> I had a meeting with Benoit, we decided to aproach the node engine for
> the Game Engine as a programming language design, I am studyng about
> programming language design and contrasting that with the current node
> engine design proposal. The idea of the programming language aproach
> was from a meeting I had last week with the professor that will guide
> my thesis. I also formalized the subject as my thesis so you will be
> seeing me for more than a Google Summer.
>
>> 2) what you will do next week
>
> Benoit and me will contrast technical work and design made by him two
> years ago and the theory design of the programming language, I will
> start the language design and definitions.
>
>> 3) any problems that will require extra attention and the impact on
>> your proposed schedule
>
> The time it will take to design of the programming language and do a
> prototype will require more attention than originally expected, but
> should affect in a good way the second part of the work.
>
> Regards
>
> PS: It's still Friday in Chile
>
> --
> Sven von Brand
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