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Except we can perfectly communicate visually, and we do it all the time. It is common to draw diagrams when you are trying to understand or explain a problem.
by yiyus 11y ago
Except we can perfectly communicate visually, and we do it all the time.
It is common to draw diagrams when you are trying to understand or explain a problem. If you want to give somebody a rough idea of how your program works, it is infinitely more likely that you use some kind of drawing than music, touch or smell.
I don't agree neither with visual programming inviting people to lose time in details. The same you do not lose time thinking about how to structure a sentence to write a program, you would not lose it changing colors and fonts in a visual programming environment with an enforced "syntax".
I do not like visual programming (I have had very bad experiences with LabView), but I think it may be as good (or as bad) as text if the field had evolved differently.
- justinclift 11y ago"Except we can perfectly communicate visually, and we do it all the time." Hmmm, someone should create a visual programming language using Dilbert characters & iconography. :)
- wvenable 11y agoVisual communication without language is always much simpler and more abstract than other forms of visual communication. Without invoking a language with syntax, you simply cannot get enough information density to make it useful. The only time we generally communicate visually is when we want to express something with less detail (e.g. charts, diagrams, graphs, emoji, etc).