In computing, Fudgets is a graphical user interface toolkit for the functional programming language Haskell and the X Window System.[1][2] Fudgets makes it easy to create client–server model applications that communicate via the Internet.
| Original author(s) | Thomas Hallgren, Magnus Carlsson |
|---|---|
| Initial release | June 1993 |
| Stable release | 0.18.4
/ June 2023 |
| Written in | Haskell |
| Operating system | POSIX compatible: Unix, Unix-like, Linux, macOS via XQuartz |
| Platform | IA-32, x86-64 |
| Available in | English |
| Type | GUI toolkit |
| License | freeware non-commercial |
Most of the work on Fudgets was done in 1991-1996 by Thomas Hallgren and Magnus Carlsson.[3]
The authors claim that many of the advantages of Fudgets come from it being programmed in a lazy functional programming language.[4]
The main entity of toolkit is fudget (implemented on low level through stream processors) which has its own input and output.[5] Fudgets can be composed in parallel or sequence, yielding new fudget which can be used in code as any other fudget.
Example
editfactorialF = stdoutF >==< mapF (show . factorial . read) >==< stdinF
factorial :: Integer -> Integer
factorial n = product [1..n]
The code is self-describing considering that >==< is sequential fudget plumbing and mapF is fudget that takes a function of one argument and makes a fudget which output is input applied to that function. Fudget composition must be read from right to left, as a simple function composition. Now you can simply write:
main = fudlogue factorialF
compile and run. For every given integer value it will print its factorial.
License
editThe software license of Fudgets claims that this software is freeware for non-commercial use only.
References
edit- ^ Hallgren, Thomas; Carlsson, Magnus (1995). "Programming with Fudgets". In Jeuring, Johan; Meijer, Erik (eds.). Advanced Functional Programming. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 925. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 137–182. doi:10.1007/3-540-59451-5_5. ISBN 978-3-540-49270-2.
- ^ Reid, Alastair; Singh, Satnam (1994). "Implementing Fudgets with Standard Widget Sets". Written at Ayr, Scotland. In O’Donnell, John T.; Hammond, Kevin (eds.). Functional Programming, Glasgow 1993: Proceedings of the 1993 Glasgow Workshop on Functional Programming, 5–7 July 1993. Workshops in Computing. London: Springer. pp. 222–235. doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-3236-3_18. ISBN 978-1-4471-3236-3. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
- ^ Hallgren, Thomas; Carlsson, Magnus (June 6, 2023). "Fudgets Home Page". altocumulus.org. Retrieved October 25, 2023.
- ^ Carlsson, Magnus; Hallgren, Thomas (1993-07-01). "Fudgets: A graphical user interface in a lazy functional language". Proceedings of the conference on Functional programming languages and computer architecture. ACM. pp. 321–330. doi:10.1145/165180.165228. ISBN 978-0-89791-595-3. S2CID 9943994.
- ^ Burton, F. Warren (1999). "Advanced Functional Programming: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 925 edited by Johan Jeuring and Erik Meijer, Springer-Verlag, 1995". Journal of Functional Programming. 9 (1): 105–111. doi:10.1017/S0956796899223246. ISSN 1469-7653.
External links
edit- Official website, latest release marked January 13, 2016
- Fudgets Phd thesis by Hallgren and Carlsson
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