visual programming seems to be one of the great failed dreams - lots of academics and practitioners tried it, and it just doesn't seem to work LabView is prett

visual programming seems to be one of the great failed dreams - lots of academics and practitioners tried it, and it just doesn't seem to work LabView is pretty powerful. Commercial, expensive, often annoying -- but pretty powerful. Integrates very cleanly w/ Visual Studio for text-based programming, too.