One more note on reusing technology, this time in the run time environment (RTE). In the Summit discussion on the subject, we agreed in principle to make the proposed Finili infographics engine available for live visualizations while a program is running. This is meant for programs that run longer than a minute or two to show the progress the program is making. Basically, why not? With this approach the progress measures, means of visualization, and frequency of updating can be controlled by the programmer. This does not take away the need for automatic or default visualization for a running program. To put it another way, we wouldn’t want the default visualization for a running program to be an hourglass icon.
Finili, a programming language for simple transformations of data
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