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Truly Visual Polymorphic Algebraic Data Structures through Maramafication
This paper presents a so-called maramafication of an essential part of
functional programming languages such as Haskell or Clean: the construction of
fully polymorphic well-typed algebraic data structures based on type
definitions with at most one type parameter. As such, this work extends our
previous work, in which only a very limited form of polymorphism was present.
Maramafication means the design of visual 'twins' of existing programming
constructs using spatial metaphors rooted in common sense or inborn spatial
intuition, to achieve self-explanatoriness. This is, among others, useful to
considerably reduce the gap between programmers and non-programmers in the
creation of programs, for educational purposes, for inclusion of non-typical
programmers and for invoking enthusiasm among non-programmers