Tangible Functional Programming

[dj4lch3mi9]

Extensions and Applications of Higher-order Unification <= You are as smart as your best work ... Logic ... I'm right now on the first order logic ... It is a pleasure to meet somebody wiser than I ... even virtually :D

[ttthttpd]

Isn't Blender's compositor like this? Except on a smaller domain and easier to use.

[Semasiographologist]

Brilliant!

Scope for imagining imaging.

Way semasiographic.

Art Scott -- Artist, Semasiographologist

[blytqb]

The first part is a good and clean summary about some key concepts of programming.

[grawful]

this dude is totally talking out of his rear. this is management's answer to trying to understand programming ideas by abstracting away already known programming concepts and encapsulating them into their own simplified terminology. he wants the audience to believe that function dictates form when in fact they are two separate entities.

[mitothechon]

He doesn't work for Google, so this has nothing to do with management.

[Kaidelong]

@grawful I think the whole point here was to divorce "function" from "form". Look at "type TV a = (Out a, a)". An arbitrary value of type "Out a" can be used to visualize the actual underlying value of type "a". The idea here would be that, since function and form are "loosely coupled" you could easily switch around the form without changing the underlying meaning, or function, of the tangible value. For example, a text input, a dial, or a slider bar could represent a number.

[fasteez]

nice video

check softwares like [they're all visual dataflow [~pipe] system] :

- Alias Maya (now Autodesk Maya)

- NothingReal Shake (now Apple Shake)

- D2 Nuke

and the most mesmerizing instanciation of this idea :

- Sidefx Houdini (you can do almost anything you can think of with it .. it's math under your finger)

beware , once you are used to this you'll be heavily frustrated by the current Os/Software world

[Glance128]

I'm not a programmer, his lecture inspires me to learn Linux and programming.

Good Ideas. Go for It.

[skch]

"In a functional language you not 'doing' anything". This is opposite of simplicity. Learn Object-Oriented programming - the real way to achieve simplicity. Functional programming - just way do do something simple very hard way. BTW - Linux pipes is as useful as wooden stove these days

[soda18]

not to be critical, but this is pointless, it totally likes the power of actual programming, how are the functions used created? you would still have to program them manually correct? If one wants to program, learn programming, if not, don't. There is no need for this, in the end it's just another app, which is what he said he was trying to avoid in the beginning...

[xiscorq]

You didn't get it, man

[designingpatrick]

this is nothing new, if you use 3d applications effectively then you tend to customize your interface, program unique variables, develop results based on results. The process of animating a character is a beautiful merge of programming and art. Most people don't care to spend the time doing this sort of thing though...

[audiocreator]

thats some straight forward awesomeness right there

[Dejaiin]

Interesting ideal. But is it really possible I program but how do we get the rest of the population into programing via an interface? Would that not make it worse for programmers? It would side to the usable.. Oh well good talk.

[tricky778]

nip2 is an example application that has function composition into pipelines for image processing.

[iggy4323]

I'm not sold on functional programming either, and I agree with gmvsea about the rift.

[gmvsea]

This was a surprisingly good lecture. Although I am still not sold on functional programming, I have to admit that the presenter's description of the rift between applications usability and code composibility was an epiphany for me. I am grateful.

I think that at least the first part of this lecture should be required reading (viewing) for all software developers.

[F00dTube]

Being sold or not is not really important now is it? It either works for you or it doesn't. And in certain environments you just don't have a choice.

[freebit50]

Thank you for fixing the sound. -Joe