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Can someone explain to me the difference between "visual programming" tools like this and environments that have existed for years such as VisualBasic, MS Acces
by callmeed 12y ago
Can someone explain to me the difference between "visual programming" tools like this and environments that have existed for years such as VisualBasic, MS Access, Flash, Dreamweaver, and XCode Storyboards? (Yes, I know many are mainly about UI but they all allow programming to some degree).
Are tools like Larch and LightTable aiming to be "visual programming done right" or is this a completely new (buzzword warning) paradigm in programming?
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoVisual programming is a broad term that has been used to describe programming with visual aspects. Lets not even discuss visual programming languages, like Quartz Composer.
- vegggdor 12y agoPlease, do go on!
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoWhat else is there to say? Visual-enhanced programming environments are quite comment, to varying degrees of visualness. Heck, MS even once put out something called Visual C++ that was not very visual at all (beyond the IDE being a graphical application). The spectrum is so large, that it is not really useful as a label, you have to compare the programming experiences directly. As for visual languages, that is whole different kettle of fishies not appropriate for this submission.
- vegggdor 12y agoI was wondering about your comment on quartz composer, before I noticed that "cisual" is a typo ... I started out on Visual Basic, it certainly helped to lower the barrier to entry a little bit. In the end it was all source text, with helpful library component selection (the timer function had an image of a clock) and ui layout editing.