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Ampersand adheres to the reactive programming paradigm. This chapter tells the story... |
The easiest way to think about Ampersand is to envisage an information system as a set of structured data that changes over time (just like a database), together with a set of constraints (the rules) on that data that must remain satisfied throughout their lifetime.
Abstract? Here is a simple example:
- Think of your example system as an empty set of data with just one rule: "Every parcel must have an owner."
- Suppose that there is an event that inserts into the data set: "Parcel with property identifier 074.0-0000-0084.0 is 0.54 acres large."
- The system will now signal that property 074.0-0000-0084.0 doesn't have an owner.
- Either you (as a user) or a computer (as automaton) can satisfy the rule by inserting into the data that the owner of property 074.0-0000-0084.0 is Grafton Town of Highway Department, 30 Providence Rd, Grafton, MA 01519-1186. Hence the rule is satisfied.
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