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People have tried to make general-purpose visual programming languages for decades and as far as I know they've failed every time. I believe that real hacking
by neilk 17y ago
People have tried to make general-purpose visual programming languages for decades and as far as I know they've failed every time.
I believe that real hacking is linguistic, and that's just not isomorphic to anything in two dimensions.
There are many specialized tasks which sort of work, like dataflow programming or music sequencing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_%28software%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_%28software%29
- Hoff 17y agoYou're not likely to build a web server nor other general application within these constraints, but purpose-targeted applications with capabilities somewhat past an etch-a-sketch UI do seem feasible. Think Pokemon. Not "general purpose". And the vendor can sell "widget packs" for these target applications.