we know your Too old so don't deny it. :P

On 5/7/2016 10:00 PM, William Hermans wrote:
> toold == tools
>
> On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 9:59 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>         /Someday, someone will probably come up with visual system
>         that's general, open source and amenable to maintaining in
>         git---but that day hasn't arrived yet./
>
>
>     I think that right now, probably the toold that are closest are
>     the better UML apps out there. Rational Rose, and Microsoft Visio.
>     Where you diagram your program flow, and the app builds your app
>     skeleton for you. Functions, classes, and all it can based on the
>     data you've given it. For me personally though, this is not my own
>     style of coding. I prefer to write small bits at a time and test
>     as I go. This way, I do not spend large amounts of time debugging
>     code . . .
>
>     On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 8:27 PM, Przemek Klosowski
>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>     wrote:
>
>                 These graphical or visual programming languages
>                 you denigrate really do help scientists, engineers,
>                 and other "domain experts" who aren't, and don't want
>                 to become, "programmers" implement an idea for which
>                 there is not, and will never be until the idea is
>                 proven sound, a budget for "hiring real programmers".
>
>          
>         In principle, yes, they are useful and enabling. In practice,
>         however, they have been underwhelming, and I can think of
>         several reasons:
>
>           * fragmentation: they usually are designed for some
>             domain-specific programming (e.g. LabView for data
>             acquisition, GNUradio for signal processing, Simulink for
>             control systems, SGI AVS/Explorer for data
>             flow/processing, etc). This, however, means that their
>             audience is limited to that particular domain.
>           * closeness: most of graphical programming systems are
>             commercial and closely held by their owners
>           * lack of scaling: easy tasks are very easy,  but as the
>             program size grows, they become unmanageable. It's
>             difficult to determine whether two visualized data flow
>             graphs are equivalent: the program representation and
>             semantics are mixed up. My favorite dis of graphical
>             programming:
>
>               o Finally, we can have spaghetti code that looks like
>                 spaghetti!
>
>         Someday, someone will probably come up with visual system
>         that's general, open source and amenable to maintaining in
>         git---but that day hasn't arrived yet.
>
>
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