From: owner-3dui@hitl.washington.edu on behalf of Chris Shaw
[cdshaw@grenfell.cc.gt.atl.ga.us]
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 5:04 PM
To: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu
Subject: Re: notation for 3D interaction techniques

>   - BodyElectric from VPL. Difficult to find details about, best to
>     refer to patent #US5588139, and short description in Kalawsky's
>     book. Apparently Jaron Lanier still supports some users
>     (www.well.com/user/jaron/vpl.html)

It was just a visual programming language (hence the name, VPL). 
Max (the visual programming language system for music built by IRCAM)
was and is a bit better, and is the standard for the computer music
community.

This is akin to a point I wanted to make earlier. 
Jeff's spectrum is wrong:

> English -- pseudocode -- Python -- Perl -- C/C++ -- abstract notation

It should be:

English -- abstract notation -- pseudocode -- (Python/Perl/C/C++/Max/VPL)

Moving from most abstract to least. Presumably all but English is
Turing-compatible.


-- 
Chris Shaw                    Research Scientist      GVU Center
cdshaw@cc.gatech.edu          College of Computing    Georgia Tech
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~cdshaw