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Thu, 24 Apr 2003
Visual programming?
Carlos and Anthony are discussing the merits of visual programming. Looks like Andy Oliver is in on it too. I have mixed feelings about visual programming -- I've used (briefly) tools like ProGraph, and did some reading on visual programming languages when I was a grad student (the advantage of being an OODB geek was that you legitimately needed to be a programming language, database, and (kind of) operating systems geek). It's a paradigm which has never lived up to its promise (at least in my eyes).
Thinking about this did revive a memory about some work being done by folks at the University of St. Andrews on what they call hyperprogramming. It's not visual programming exactly, but i leverages visualization in pursuit of more leverage at the language level. I haven't kept up with what they've been doing, so my memory is a bit rusty on the details, but it was very interesting stuff when my mind was fresh on it.
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