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The most common fallacy across almost 40 years of visual programming attempts is that one can somehow escape the essential complexity of a problem domain. One
by jnwatson 6y ago
The most common fallacy across almost 40 years of visual programming attempts is that one can somehow escape the essential complexity of a problem domain. One must have "a certain logical fluency" to design essentially any process, regardless of the technology used.
- jonny_eh 6y agoRight, even extreme Excel macros require logic, and is also a programming gateway. The nice thing about Excel (or the article's example of Visicalc) is that one doesn't need to jump into the deep end of logic problem solving, at least at first.
- trixie_ 6y agoI'm pretty sure the zillions of Excel users proves it's not logic that's the problem It's all the scaffolding around it that is the real barrier of entry to most development systems.