There have been efforts at pure graphical programming software. In fact, there was a database program that was drag and drop in the relatively early Mac days. I wish that I could remember what it was called, but time has wiped that from my memory banks. It was very cumbersome to accomplish anything of any complexity. I don’t think that there is an ideal solution for everyone and have always thought that 4D offered a good blend.
Ed On 11/15/16, 1:29 PM, "4D_Tech on behalf of Bill Weale" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: As far as software “developers” are concerned, I may be an extreme example of someone who is bothered by this type of learning. I simply don’t have the patience/attention span/(motivation?) to devote the time and effort to the repetitive (to me, boring to the point of stifling) behaviors required to accomplish rote learning. Specific to 4D and other scripting platforms where an important result is graphical, I’ve thought that I’d be a lot more productive if somehow the programming “language” itself were more, er, graphical. There surely have been improvements in my 25 years, but there’s still way too much text in this world. 8-) Bill > On Nov 14, 2016, at 6:26 PM, David Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > > For those of you that pass parameters, order can matter. It's been, what, > 30 years now I've been using 4D (!) and I *still* have to double-check > Position and Find in array > > Position(Needle;Haystack) > Find in array(Haystack;Needle) ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
