Communication with the no-functional world.

[rinus plasmeijer]

Dear Ana Maria Abrao:

>Many people complain about types, classes, lack of litterate programs,
>et
>I think that what is badly missing in Clean is not better class system
>or user interface, but a good interface with the non-functional world.
>People often need external data bases (SQL), multimedia, sounds, graphic
>displayers, etc. All these tools would be available if one had an
>interface with C.
>
>Clean is so good that if people could use it to write software
>satisfying an ever more demanding market, functional programming would
>be a success. The fact is that consumers of software want more and more
>animations, sound, large standard databases, voice recognition, etc.
>There are libraries for all that, but these libraries are out of the
>reach of average clean programmers. I have seen a beautiful program in
>Clean, written by  Weslesley, which generates chords for music, and play
>the resulting MIDI files.

Like to see this. Maybe I can use it as well for my keyboard.


 The author told me that it was harder to
>figure out how to write the interface to the midi system than to design
>the whole program! Of course, writing such an interface is well beyond
>the competence of a tyro like myself.
>
>When will the Clean team make us a gift of a good interface to the
>non-functional world?

We are testing a tool which uses C-headers in which you can write Clean types in the comments. It will be included in one of the next releases of Clean.

 If you want to be the successor of the dynosaurs,
>which rule the software industry, the first step is to feed on their
>eggs!

You are right.

Greetings,


Rinus