- Paperback: 386 pages
- Publisher: Springer; 2nd Printing. edition (4 Feb 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1848826176
- ISBN-13: 978-1848826175
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,619,565 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From the reviews: “In Drawing Programs, Tom Addis (Univ. of Portsmouth, UK) and Jan Addis (Clarity Support, UK) teach readers how to program a computer using a special language they have developed called Clarity. … Drawing Programs is both a work on programming and a manual for the language. … The numerous illustrations are helpful. Summing Up: Recommended. Researchers and faculty.” (S. L. Tanimoto, Choice, Vol. 47 (11), July, 2010)
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Visual programming systems have had a large uptake in industry. However the visual components of such systems have tended to focus on the structure, properties and behaviour of graphical user interfaces and their relationship to textually represented, predominantly imperative, code fragments.
Functional programming has historically appeared to have been more prevalent in the academic computing community. However, it seems to be gaining wider adoption with popular languages such as Python and Ruby supporting the functional paradigm, albeit in an impure form.
The main part of this book is about functional programming and in particular the use of the authors’ graphical functional programming system ‘Clarity’. In Clarity, and in contrast to mainstream ‘visual’ languages, programs are expressed as schematics. The authors argue that functional programming lends itself to graphical schematic representation more advantageously than imperative approaches.
Through the ten chapters of the book, the authors cover, in varying degrees of depth, a wide range of computer programming-related topics, with a natural bias towards functional programming and Clarity. Much of this book is a practical demonstration of the Clarity system and of how the benefits of graphical representations of (functional) computer programs over their textual counterparts may be gained.
There are practical sections describing how to run and use the Clarity system, how to implement distributed systems using Clarity and how to develop extensions to the Clarity system. In addition, the authors describe approaches to the design and development of functional programs and functional programming concepts, such as head and tail recursion, folds and so forth. These sections are supported by extended working examples.
In contrast, there are sections that discuss philosophical topics such as computer program semantics, and more theoretical sections that discuss topics such as functional thinking, artificial intelligence, Bayesian classification and programming systems that deal with uncertainty.
The book is an engaging read and is likely to be of value to anyone interested in computer programming, functional or not. The authors reinforce learning by lots of review questions, and worked through projects and examples. My only criticism is that, on occasion, I thought better signposting was required in order to make clearer the purpose of some of the diversions.
The Clarity system and examples from the book are available for free download.
--8 out of 10, Patrick Hill MBCS CITP, July 2010
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Finally, a software design approach that helps instead of burdens!!,
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This review is from: Drawing Programs: The Theory and Practice of Schematic Functional Programming (Paperback)
I have been a programmer for the last 20 years and found this book a breath of fresh air. Having programmed in over 25 different languages/scripts, Clarity is the first language where the plethora of unnecessary and overly complicated constructs is reduced to a finely tuned set that allows programmers to become problem solvers.
The book describes on one hand a functional language with its development environment suitable for novices to the functional paradigm and on the other hand, the book describes some very advanced techniques in reasoning under not just uncertain but also changing conditions suitable for experts. There are multiple reading paths through the book for anyone wishing to focus on just one subject. The ability to test and program quickly makes the described programming environment, the best prototyping tool I have ever come across. The pattern matching feature of the language is extremely powerful and allows for some very easy solutions to complicated problems. The lack of features to the language stopped me trying to impose structures onto the problem and instead allowed me to focus on the dynamics of the problem solutions. The philosophical underpinning and ideas as described in this book are unparalleled in richness and ingenuity. The author has an uncanny ability to reinterpret existing papers and interpretations and show them in a new light bridging the gap between theory and practice. A fantastic read for both novices and experts!
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