[Haskell-cafe] extending the notion of notation

[Kim-Ee Yeoh]

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 4:37 AM, John Meacham <john at repetae.net> wrote:

> I dunno, I think makefiles might give them a run for the money when it
> comes to declarative functional languages out there. and they are
> monadic too!
>

Yes. Makefile programming is declarative programming indeed. Makefiles are
textfiles though.

So to return to the theme of "Can programming be liberated from
textfiles?", I posited spreadsheets as a form of programming with no
textfiles in sight.

-- Kim-Ee
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