📖Subtext 1

authors

Edwards, Jonathan

year

2005

url

https://vimeo.com/451278506

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• everything works by copying (you copy a function and pass link in parameters, then you link out the result)

  • “decriminalize copy & paste”

• everything is reactive

• program flow doesn’t have to be a tree. you can link intermediate values out of the function calll

• “programming by example”—you always have some input to your functions and some output

  • all code is a living example

• you can “freeze” an example into a test

• everything runs in edit time

• Link is kinda State monad, and saves all states in the history

  • history also includes all program editing

  • Link creates a “hypothetical future” that can be edited

• within each state, everything is purely-functional. changes occur when passing state boundary

• q

  State is only a problem if you are trapped in just one: the present