Tangible values (Conal Elliott)

External links

• Video of talk: Tangible Functional Programming – 2007-11-07 – Conal Elliott

On Conal Elliotts homepage:

• The Eros demo: http://conal.net/papers/Eros/
• Paper: http://conal.net/papers/Eros/eros-icfp-2007-printed.pdf
• Paper: http://conal.net/papers/Eros/eros.pdf (via ResearchGate)
• Paper: http://conal.net/papers/Eros/talk.pdf

On the haskell wiki:

• Eros (chapter on "fusion")
• Tangible value
• DeepArrow
• GuiTV
• DataDriven (deprecated in favor of reactive)

On hackage:

• TV: Tangible Values -- composable interfaces
• GtkTV: Gtk-based GUIs for Tangible Values GtkGLTV adds OpenGL support to GtkTV, which is a Gtk back-end for tangible values.
• GuiTV: GUIs for Tangible Values GuiTV is a very small library that extends the TV (tangible value) framework with graphical user interfaces, using Phooey.
• DeepArrow: Arrows for "deep application"

Other:

• Eros distribution from internetarchive

Notes / Ideas

Tangible values may go well together with annotated lambda diagrams.
See:

• Annotated lambda diagram
• Annotated lambda diagram mockups

That is because:
ALDs always are a value.
ALDs typically leave a triangular unused whitespace (blackspace in dark mode) where tangible values coud be fitted in. Perhaps even more whitespace than textual code. Relative scales between ALD and TV could be see-saw scaled depending on priotity of what one wants to see more.

The original idea of TVs is to hide code fully.
It might be beneficial though to allow associated code to be displayed. And given ALD seem like the "middlest" midpoint between graphical and textual code representation, it might be not as disruptive to add ALDs to TVs as to add pure textual code to TVs.