Needle - Ascii Art Categories and Arrows

visual-systems / philosophy

Overall philosophical documentation of what this system will aim to achieve and how it will be constructed.

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Needle - Ascii Art Categories and Arrows #17

Open sordina opened 5 years ago

sordina commented 5 years ago

http://scrambledeggsontoast.github.io/2014/09/28/needle-announce/

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/needle

sashaboyd commented 5 years ago

To me, this is a good example of why plain text isn't good enough: arrows are a mathematically useful and intuitive concept, but whether you use the standard Haskell syntax, or ASCII art, you end up with something confusing. That and I can't imagine using a screen reader with that. Not to say though that anything graphical would inherently be better, just that text is one possible visual representation of many. Anyway, I'll step down off my soapbox now 😅.

sordina commented 5 years ago

Oh definitely! I'm fairly certain that this must have been an April fools joke tbh, but the cool thing is that it creates definitions with Arrow types as opposed to something more concrete.