1. Natural or Visual, that is the question...
- Posted by mtsreborn at yahoo.com
Feb 26, 2001
I need some inuput...
What would you lik ethe most, a Natural Language, or a
Visual language?
Visual meaning like some sort of merge between LOGO
and LEGO; You design your program by stacking blocks,
wich each does an operation.
For serious development, would you, as a customer, opt
for the natural language, or the visual one?
I'm still wrestling with NS syntax, trying to find the
best one for the commercial version.
Natural, or Visual?...
Help me out on this...
Mike The Spike
2. Re: Natural or Visual, that is the question...
HAHAHAHAAAAA.
Well, Mike... how about both??? 
-ck
P.S. You knew somebody was going to say that, right?
----- Original Message -----
From: <mtsreborn at yahoo.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 11:25 AM
Subject: Natural or Visual, that is the question...
> I need some inuput...
> What would you lik ethe most, a Natural Language, or a
> Visual language?
> Visual meaning like some sort of merge between LOGO
> and LEGO; You design your program by stacking blocks,
> wich each does an operation.
>
> For serious development, would you, as a customer, opt
> for the natural language, or the visual one?
>
> I'm still wrestling with NS syntax, trying to find the
> best one for the commercial version.
> Natural, or Visual?...
>
> Help me out on this...
>
> Mike The Spike
>
>
3. Re: Natural or Visual, that is the question...
- Posted by mtsreborn at yahoo.com
Feb 27, 2001
--- CK Lester <cklester at yahoo.com> wrote:
> HAHAHAHAAAAA.
>
> Well, Mike... how about both???
My thoughts exactly.
The IDE is some sort of LEGO-like flow control
charting proggy...
Like those block charts you see wich are used to
sketch a program, those that go like this;
START
|
|
GET INPUT
|
IF INPUT IS "HELLO" - - - WRITE "HI!"
|
|
ELSE
|
GOTO START
You like, build it like this and have NS code
generated.
Mike The Spike
> -ck
>
> P.S. You knew somebody was going to say that, right?
No, why is that?
4. Re: Natural or Visual, that is the question...
- Posted by mswayze at TRUSWOOD.COM
Feb 27, 2001
not to put the kabosh on anything, but..
a coupla decades ago I used a Mac program called DoubleHelix which used the
visual metaphor programming which you ar talking about. ie. an if the else
statement was put in the program by drag and dropping an if -then- else
bitmap with fill in the blanks, if there were further logical constructs
they could be dragged and dropped with the appropriate arrow pointing to the
appropriate box(field).
If what you were trying to do did not invlove a lot of steps it worked
pretty good, but became extremely slow(and kludgy) when trying to get
several layers deep in if -then- else constructs, this might have been
because the constructs were built from the bottom up, but my feelings are it
would have been faster to type it.(and easier to follow too)
Swayze
mswayze at truswood.com
kswayze at bellsouth.net
----- Original Message -----
From: <mtsreborn at yahoo.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: Natural or Visual, that is the question...
>
> --- CK Lester <cklester at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > HAHAHAHAAAAA.
> >
> > Well, Mike... how about both???
>
> My thoughts exactly.
> The IDE is some sort of LEGO-like flow control
> charting proggy...
> Like those block charts you see wich are used to
> sketch a program, those that go like this;
> START
> |
> |
> GET INPUT
> |
> IF INPUT IS "HELLO" - - - WRITE "HI!"
> |
> |
> ELSE
> |
> GOTO START
>
> You like, build it like this and have NS code
> generated.
>
>
> Mike The Spike
> > -ck
> >
> > P.S. You knew somebody was going to say that, right?
>
> No, why is that?
>
>
>
