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Message: 7<br>
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 04:34:56 +0900<br>
From: "Benjamin L. Russell" <DekuDekuplex@Yahoo.com><br>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for children? Any experience?<br>
To: <a href="mailto:haskell-cafe@haskell.org">haskell-cafe@haskell.org</a><br>
Message-ID: <ijp613$9q5$<a href="mailto:1@dough.gmane.org">1@dough.gmane.org</a>><br>
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Actually, I've been wishing for a high-level way of creating an<br>
interactive three-dimensional virtual world in Haskell that doesn't<br>
require explicit knowledge of linear algebra. Ideally, I'm looking for<br>
a Haskell way of creating a functional counterpart to, say, Open Cobalt<br>
(see <a href="http://www.opencobalt.org/" target="_blank">http://www.opencobalt.org/</a>) that is high-level-enough not to<br>
require explicit manipulation of row and column vectors.<br>
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One of the main problems, however, is the lack of reflection. Ideally,<br>
I would like the project to be able to modify its own framework in real<br>
time, so that, for example, within the virtual world, users would be<br>
able to create portals to other virtual worlds, and then write code<br>
while the project was running to change the configuration without<br>
restarting the project. Then users would be able to write code in the<br>
functional style to change the virtual environment _in situ._<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's not Haskell, but this sounds a lot like Newspeak: <a href="http://bracha.org/Site/Newspeak.html">http://bracha.org/Site/Newspeak.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>John L.</div></div>