Marian Petrides wrote:
That s*cks! On the other hand, Discovery Systems who used to market Course Builder (not to be confused with the Adobe product of the same name) had my undying loyalty because whenever you asked them a tech support question, not only did they answer it they often also included a sample snippet of code. Kinda like what folks do on this list.
More "small world" xTalk trivia: Course Builder was what Bill Appleton made before he made SuperCard.
What I found most interesting about talking with him on that was his disappointment with iconic programming: he felt it was ultimately too limited to be very useful for anything but the simplest of tasks. That disappointment with iconic programming became a big part of his motivation for making a scripting product.
I've been looking into iconic and other visual programming tools as a possible answer for education tool, a la KidSim.
But the more I look into it, the more I've noticed one salient oddity about visual programming languages as a whole: most papers published about such things span from the mid-80s to the mid-90s, with almost no new developments in the last decade. Indeed, commercial tools like Cocoa (the original SK8-based sim-building tool which later became KidSim), Prograph, Icon Author, and Authorware are either dead or dying.
So is it the case that all of the truly visual programming languages are gone? Or have I just missed some really cool work going on out there?
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