I have to put in a plug (for Walt Nelson of Guam) Flow charting of methods
:) On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 13:34:07 -0700, Ed Glassgow wrote: > 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] > ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 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] **********************************************************************
