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But at what point does simple become complex? It's all well and good saying only use it for simple tasks, but when real life complexity comes knocking, you end

But at what point does simple become complex? It's all well and good saying only use it for simple tasks, but when real life complexity comes knocking, you end up with this sort of magic [1] that is far worse than any C++ I've seen in the wild. [1] http://scriptsofanotherdimension.tumblr.com http://scriptsofanotherdimension.tumblr.com

TuringTest 11y ago
People interested in VP really, really should learn about DRAKON[1], the Russian style guide for structured dataflows. I've used it for real projects and it actually solves the spaghetti problem. Compare this:[2] with this:[3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON [2] http://scriptsofanotherdimension.tumblr.com/image/138697246606 http://scriptsofanotherdimension.tumblr.com/image/1386972466... [3] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Dutch_cryo_Moscow.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Dutch_cr...
- fsloth 11y ago
  A drakon node does not seem to support multiple input values? That's why these visual graphs get convoluted. Compute nodes deal with multiple input and output connections.
  - TuringTest 11y ago
    Good call. Drakon is for control flow specification, not data flow specification. However having a standard for splitting subsystems in separate modules and laying out components using regular rules would benefit any kind of visual graph.