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John Carmack has mentioned that he uses a visual Lisp environment on iPad. Scheme-based, iirc.

It's somewhere in here, I think (but alas I'm not up to listening again through half an hour of the old lady voice): https://youtube.com/watch?v=1PhArSujR_A

I feel like marrying Lisp's meta-programmable DSLs to an easy visual environment is the ultimate cosmic dream of 'domain-centered' programming and customization for non-coders―but it also seems to me that Lisp is rather text-based, trading a readymade set of operations picked in the interface for infinite extendability through text. So I'm not sure if a visual Lisp is any convenient to use.

Also, for me the immediate downside of the Lisp environment in question is that it's only available for iPad.

parent aasasd 7 years ago

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