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You can't effectively print out the code. It's hard to blog and hard to quote snippets from. To refactor you have to manually rearrange icons; there's a lot of
by Qz 16y ago
You can't effectively print out the code. It's hard to blog and hard to quote snippets from. To refactor you have to manually rearrange icons; there's a lot of time wasted laying things out. There's no way to use version control or create a patch. There's no search-and-replace.
None of those problems are intrinsic to visual programming, only to the IDE for one. None of those problems seems particularly hard to solve as far as I can see.
- barrkel 16y agoWhen you have to rely on an IDE for printing, sharing code, quoting etc., you've already lost.
- Qz 16y agoFrom the perspective of a text-based language that would make sense, but its completely inapplicable to a visual programming language. The IDE is the language. Printing/sharing/quoting would need to be features of the IDE and the language.