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Started by Nathan2222_old February 19, 2014 11:30 AM

3 comments, last by Starnick 10 years, 1 month ago

Nathan2222_old

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February 19, 2014 11:30 AM

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

620

February 19, 2014 04:05 PM

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

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February 19, 2014 05:38 PM

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.

Serapth

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February 19, 2014 09:39 PM

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.

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