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The idea of graphical programming seems in a lot of way like graphical mathematics. Works in some cases, but not in all. I used graphics to represent database
by pizo 13y ago
The idea of graphical programming seems in a lot of way like graphical mathematics.
Works in some cases, but not in all.
I used graphics to represent databases, and their relationships, because it's more easily understood than several hundred lines of code. It fails to tell the whole story though, and thus only serves as a thousand foot view of what is going on.
- gshubert17 13y ago> Works in some cases, but not in all. Delphi (for Windows, 1995-on) had a very nice graphical IDE which was good for developing graphical user interfaces in an object-oriented programming style. The rest of the IDE was fine for editing and debugging. But it was great for GUI development.
- pcmonk 13y agoYou're right about the similarity with graphical mathematics (and Bret Victor's Kill Math project was something of an inspiration for this (even though I have some fundamental disagreements with his methods), even though I didn't see it until after I'd started it). You've identified a critical problem with graphical programming today: it fails to tell the whole story. This is exactly what I referred to in the post, and that's not inherent in the medium; rather, it's just that people have been trying to solve this problem in the wrong way.