You might be interested in reading about Barista. Here are some nice videos. The paper is worth a read-through too.
http://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/barista.shtml On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:03, Clendon Gibson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Dan, > > I make my living writing LabVIEW which is drawn rather then written. I > presume this is what you mean by VPL. > > This language would be impossible to use without a mouse. > > Another language that used to compete in the same space as LabVIEW was HP > VEE. It would have also been impossible to use without a mouse. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Dan Stowell <[email protected]> > *To:* PPIG Listserve <[email protected]> > *Cc:* Thomas Green <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Tue, March 8, 2011 3:40:35 AM > > *Subject:* Visual and text languages > > Hi, > > I'm fairly new to the PP literature. Thomas's self-promotion led me to his > interesting 1996 paper on visual programming languages. "Overall, we believe > that in many respects VPLs offer substantial gains over conventional textual > languages, but at present their HCI aspects are still under-developed. > Improvements in secondary notation, in editing, and in searching will > greatly raise their overall usability." > > As someone who does a lot of work in textual languages - in particular, > livecoding - I'd be interested to know what the state of the literature is > on VPLs, especially in comparison against text languages. I haven't been > able to find a recent survey, any recommendations? > > (Also, as someone who has had RSI, I wonder about the accessibility of VPLs > via purely keyboard control...) > > Best > Dan > > > On 01/03/2011 17:32, Thomas Green wrote: > > Er, a spot of self-promotion here ..... the various types of comparison > > I did in the past led to a framework which attempts to make some sense > > of the underlying trade-offs, the cognitive dimensions framework, > > developed by me and lots of other people. Stefano, if you simply want to > > know whether your new tool works, then you probably just need to do an > > experiment and stop; but if you want to know why it works (or doesn't), > > you might take a look at that framework. There's a resources page here: > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~afb21/CognitiveDimensions/ > > > > CDs analysis is quite quick, though very vague. It's actually quite > > possible that it would reveal problems you've overlooked ..... > > > > Thomas > > > > -- > > The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an > > exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland > > (SC 038302). > > > -- Dan Stowell > Postdoctoral Research Assistant > Centre for Digital Music > Queen Mary, University of London > Mile End Road, London E1 4NS > http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/digitalmusic/people/dans.htm > http://www.mcld.co.uk/ >
