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The essential difficulty in programming is not to do with syntax. That's just the first thing an "outsider" sees that makes it seem unapproachable. The progra
by recursive 14y ago
The essential difficulty in programming is not to do with syntax. That's just the first thing an "outsider" sees that makes it seem unapproachable. The programming-for-the-rest-of-us thing has been tried more than a few times. Outside of specialized domains, I don't think it has ever gone anywhere.
- supar 14y agoAlso, "visual languages" even when restricted to very specific domains (think of DSP blocks, a tried&tested domain where visual languages are abundantly abused) tend to get very messy already when only very simple logic is involved. I wouldn't classify simple IFS systems in recursive painting programs to be "programming" at all. Where's branching, for instance?