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The same reason visual writing hasn't caught on. Our brains are wired for textual language. It's generally hard to express highly abstract ideas with just pictu
by extension 15y ago
The same reason visual writing hasn't caught on. Our brains are wired for textual language. It's generally hard to express highly abstract ideas with just pictures.
- bartonfink 15y agoThe Egyptians would like to disagree with you. The Chinese, Japanese and other ideographic cultures are right behind them in line.
- extension 15y agoIdeographic writing is still sequential text.
- bartonfink 15y agoIn the same sense that picture books are sequential text.
- extension 15y agoI've never seen a visual programming system that was anything like a picture book. Rather, every one that I've seen uses some sort of graph visualized in two or occasionally three dimensions. In contrast, every natural language that I've seen, along with every remotely successful programming language, uses a one dimensional sequence of words and/or symbols with an implicit grammatical structure. That is probably no coincidence.