DCT use cases - draft

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-07-26 02:03, David Piepgrass wrote:

> BTW, have you seen the video by Bret Victor entitled "Inventing on
> Principle"? This should be a use case for DCT:
>
> http://vimeo.com/36579366
>
> The most important part for the average (nongraphical) developer is his
> demo of writing a binary search algorithm. It may be difficult to use an
> ordinary debugger to debug CTFE, template overload resolution and
> "static if" statements, but something like Bret's demo, or what the
> Light Table IDE is supposed to do...
>
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table
>
> ...would be perfect for compile-time debugging, and not only that, it
> would also help people write their code in the first place, including
> (obviously) code intended for run-time.
>
> P.S. oh how nice it would be if we could convince anyone to pay us to
> develop these compiler tools... just minimum wage would be soooo nice.

That is so cool :)

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/Jacob Carlborg