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To be very pedantic, the context makes it clear I'm using "code" as shorthand to refer only to written programs. True, visual code may well be a first class ci
by anonytrary 9y ago
To be very pedantic, the context makes it clear I'm using "code" as shorthand to refer only to written programs.
True, visual code may well be a first class citizen in programming. As of today, there are still programs people would not write visually. It's a tool for simple procedural work, which could change as the ergonomics get even better.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoThere are codeless visual programming methods, like Pygmalion and Sketchpad, among others. So we shouldn't get confused with them.
- anonytrary 9y agoVisual programming: Drag and drop nodes and edges to form a control-flow/compute graph. Code: Python, JS, C++, etc. I don't think this is confusing for our readers at all.