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I think a visual approach is great for representing the overall structure of a C++ program (e.g. inheritance hierarchy), but I much prefer code for the lower le

I think a visual approach is great for representing the overall structure of a C++ program (e.g. inheritance hierarchy), but I much prefer code for the lower level logic. People have been using visual representations of programs for ~70 years. I'm not sure how much room there is for major improvements to visualization.

ken 7y ago
Back in the 1980's, I heard virtually the same argument -- just replace "C++" and "visualization" with "assembly language" and "compilers". There turned out to be lots of room for improvements at the top! We could put almost all of the old housekeeping and busywork into our tools, and use a much simpler language for describing the unique parts of our program that we actually care about. I see no evidence that our current style of object-oriented programming is going to turn out to be the pinnacle of computing abstraction. The median language is (slowly but steadily) climbing the abstraction ladder, and each step brings it closer to an abstract visualization.