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It's interesting for UI design, but anyone saying that you can bring web applications - logic included - "to life" with no coding is selling snake oil. Some co
by abalashov 17y ago
It's interesting for UI design, but anyone saying that you can bring web applications - logic included - "to life" with no coding is selling snake oil. Some coding is required even for the most banal of CRUD apps, even if you're using a glorified database front-end like Maypole.
- anigbrowl 17y agoYes, you'll probably need to hack out some code to get things done. But it's not inevitable. This http://kineme.net/files/Nord-Modular-30-large.jpg http://kineme.net/files/Nord-Modular-30-large.jpg is the first-generation programming environment for the Nord Modular a (since discontinued) DSP-based representation f a modular analog synthesizer. No coding at all here - you have a bunch of modules, some of which are bitwise or digital, some of which are not. The configurations are referred to as patch files (after patch cables) - not to be confused with a code patch. I don't want to go reinstalling the software, finding the file, and making screen captures (and I've since sold that keyboard), but I had a patch file that would let you play Asteroids when you plugged the audio output into an oscilloscope (or ran a softscope on on a computer). I would play by twisting two knobs (for heading and thrust) and hitting a piano key to fire, pew pew. I think we could all agree that Asteroids, even a primitive implementation, involves logic. And although this might seem like a very perverse way to implement, there are many tasks oriented around signal or data flow for which the procedural approach to programming is equally perverse. Look into http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer for more.