OpenEuphoria

Re: Natural or Visual, that is the question...

• Posted by mswayze at TRUSWOOD.COM Feb 27, 2001
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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 -----
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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?
>
>
>