As resident Labview stan, I've kind of accepted that visual programming languages aren't really going to be used professionally for any thing a text based language can do in text for less...
As resident Labview stan, I've kind of accepted that visual programming languages aren't really going to be used professionally for any thing a text based language can do in text for less resources. It's kind of like how we're never going to have mecha because any advancement in materials that would allow one would just be used for better tanks. Still I dream.
This is a bizarre piece. He's quoting a paper written in the 80s. We've had 40 years of computing since then. It was written right around the time that Hypercard went live and was used to write...
This is a bizarre piece. He's quoting a paper written in the 80s. We've had 40 years of computing since then. It was written right around the time that Hypercard went live and was used to write the all time best-selling (at the time) game Myst. It's also when Visual Basic started to pick up steam and became a huge force for small businesses writing custom software. Heck a few years after that was written, I was writing in Visual C for my employer. (Admittedly it wasn't as visual as Visual Basic, though.) These things have their place. You probably won't write an OS in a visual language, but it doesn't mean they're useless.
As resident Labview stan, I've kind of accepted that visual programming languages aren't really going to be used professionally for any thing a text based language can do in text for less resources. It's kind of like how we're never going to have mecha because any advancement in materials that would allow one would just be used for better tanks. Still I dream.
This is a bizarre piece. He's quoting a paper written in the 80s. We've had 40 years of computing since then. It was written right around the time that Hypercard went live and was used to write the all time best-selling (at the time) game Myst. It's also when Visual Basic started to pick up steam and became a huge force for small businesses writing custom software. Heck a few years after that was written, I was writing in Visual C for my employer. (Admittedly it wasn't as visual as Visual Basic, though.) These things have their place. You probably won't write an OS in a visual language, but it doesn't mean they're useless.