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It doesn't suck if your code involves complex flows of relatively simple data. Programs like Reaktor and Max MSP have been hugely successful for this kind of co
by cageface 9y ago
It doesn't suck if your code involves complex flows of relatively simple data. Programs like Reaktor and Max MSP have been hugely successful for this kind of coding in the music world.
If your data structures are more complex and require more convoluted logic, which is more often the case than not, then the benefits of visual programming diminish and the downsides are much more apparent.
- unclesaamm 9y agoGNU Radio is another example of this succeeding with manipulating flows of data. But I agree that's an intrinsically different problem than what OP is describing, which is essentially a WYSIWYG editor.
- flor1s 9y agoI've seen a research lab in Tokyo use Max MSP for controlling the motion of a humanoid robot (using pneumatic actuators). I believe that whenever there is some flow involved it is easier to model it graphically than textually.