Not really. What Backus is advocating is applicative-style programming (what we ...

seanmcdirmid on April 28, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: “Mostly functional” programming does not work

Not really. What Backus is advocating is applicative-style programming (what we know as FP today); what Glitch is advocating is anything but! Some of the code looks similar (indeed, we are inspired by FRP and earlier reactive languages like Esterel), but Glitch keeps everything in the world of explicit control flow rather than bury everything in data flow.

dllthomas on April 29, 2014 [–]

Only skimmed, but it sounds like it's in a conceptual space near STM and lvish?