Text-based coding would work better for me if the handling or ordering of language elements where consistent across languages. Nouns, verbs, subjects, objects, modifiers, etc. take different positions or ordering in different languages. My native language is English and my only backup is Latin. (Maybe THAT’S the problem!) The 4D “language” and, importantly its documentation, is a product of folks from many different cultures. My guess is that the varied ordering of elements such as parameters is partly because of this. Also, a translation of French documentation to English can, at least in my form of logical thinking, create a frustrating misunderstanding of what I need to do.
Pictures often circumvent this problem, but it seems to me more “supervision” of the work product—localized 4D commands and documentation—could help also. —www > On Nov 15, 2016, at 3:34 PM, Ed Glassgow <[email protected]> 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. ********************************************************************** 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] **********************************************************************
