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Programming method (what do you think?)

Started by Nathan2222_old Feb 19, 2014 at 11:30 AM 3 replies 1.9k views
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Nathan2222_old
Nathan2222_old
For instance, say you wanted to create a calculator program and then you start your ide which presents an empty form with absolutely nothing on it. You then divide the form into different parts and then specify the names and functions of each of those parts.

Name: close_button Function: end
background_color: red

Name: textbox
function: {
display,
read_in
}
access:
{
add_button,
subtract_button,
multiply_button,
divide_button

operator (+, -, /, *)
}

name: add_button
function: add{int, double, float}
operator: +

name: subtract_button
function: subtract {
int, double, float}
operator: -

name: multiply_button
function: multiply {
int, double, float}

name: divide_button
function: multiply{
int, float, double}
operator: *

Say that's a calculator with a gui, is it too verbose?
UNREAL ENGINE 4:
Total LOC: ~3M Lines
Total Languages: ~32

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Paragon123
Paragon123

Personally, I think it looks sparse.

There is not enough information provided to allow any decent amount of customization.

Also, the event handling looks much to rigid.. do buttons only ever fire off a single type of event? The textbox has two event? or does a single event fire two functions? If it has two events, which event does the first function map to and which the second? Is the order important?

I think you'd have trouble maintaining the code... if you dropped the project for two months and came back, would you really be able to remember exactly what everything actually meant?

I don't mean to be hard on the code... I just think that this might be a case where Verbosity is a necessary nuisance, otherwise you'll end up with too much indecipherable information.

Nathan2222_old
Nathan2222_old
I actually forgot what gui meant because i've been programming in the console. That's why i was worried if the language design was too verbose because programming in the console is less like the code example.
After searching for something similar in Qt, i think it's good but needs improvement.
@paragon: order won't matter and the textbox won't have just two events. I just used as an example.
UNREAL ENGINE 4:
Total LOC: ~3M Lines
Total Languages: ~32

--
GREAT QUOTES:
I can do ALL things through Christ - Jesus Christ
--
Logic will get you from A-Z, imagination gets you everywhere - Albert Einstein
--
The problems of the world cannot be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. - John F. Kennedy
Serapth
Serapth
No offence, but I think you should spend a lot more time getting hands on experience with real world systems and less time in theoretical persuits as frankly, without experience you are most certainly wasting your time.

Until you know what you are doing, and why things work ( and don't ) the way they do, you can't even begin to improve on them.
Starnick
Starnick

Until you know what you are doing, and why things work ( and don't ) the way they do, you can't even begin to improve on them.

aka "You are not god's gift to binary."

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