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Expressions of Change

I have been working on a project called "Expressions of Change"; I thought the audience of Lambda the Ultimate might find it interesting.

The aim of the project is to improve the tools for constructing ever-changing computer programs by putting the changes themselves central in the programming experience. That is: reify changes, and use those reified changes as the main interface across the programming toolchain. Because the project rejects the history-less file as a basic building block, a first implementation step is to build the prototype of an editor that constructs such primitives of change instead.

More information may be found on the website. The best summary of the present status is probably in the form of the videos of presentations that may be found there. A paper discussing some of the first steps may be found there as well.

I'd love to answer any questions you might have, either on the website in the form of comments or on the present forum.