Readme for reactive-0.0
_Reactive_ [1] is a simple foundation for programming reactive systems
functionally. Like Fran/FRP, it has a notions of (reactive) behaviors and
events. Like DataDriven [2], Reactive has a data-driven implementation.
The main difference between Reactive and DataDriven is that Reactive
builds on MVar-based "futures", while DataDriven builds on
continuation-based computations.
The inspiration for Reactive was Mike Sperber's Lula [3] implementation of
FRP. Mike used blocking threads, which I had never considered for FRP.
While playing with the idea, I realized that I could give a very elegant
and efficient solution to caching, which DataDriven doesn't do. (For an
application "f <*> a" of a varying function to a varying argument, caching
remembers the latest function to apply to a new argument and the last
argument to which to apply a new function.)
Please share any comments & suggestions on the discussion (talk) page
there.
You can configure, build, and install all in the usual way with Cabal
commands.
runhaskell Setup.lhs configure
runhaskell Setup.lhs build
runhaskell Setup.lhs install
References:
[1] http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Reactive
[2] http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/DataDriven
[3] http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/lula/deutsch/publications.html