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I'd love to see an editor for textual programming languages that can display the code visually. For example a tool which can show the code within a single JavaS
by foreigner 6y ago
I'd love to see an editor for textual programming languages that can display the code visually. For example a tool which can show the code within a single JavaScript function as a flow chart. I don't see why that shouldn't be possible but I've never found one.
Note I'm not talking about class diagrams, I want to see a flow chart of the actual imperative code (for loops, if/then, etc...) of an existing popular text-based programming language.
- w_t_payne 6y agoI'd love to see that as well. I might try to give it a go for Python code - try to generate the control flow graph, data dependency graph and syntax tree, and find a way of flipping between them.
- thelazydogsback 6y agoThey have been around for a while, esp. about 10-20 years ago -- I've seen these plug-ins wane in popularity. I think the reason is the same as the arguments here for VP -- although a flowchart is nice in principal it becomes unwieldy and quickly looses any value once something doesn't all fit on the screen -- now your "navigating" rather than reading -- there is no gestalt to grok.