There is a very real sense in which words can be viewed as icons, but
complex icons which have certain possibilities of interrelationship
built into them. This is probably hard to simulate in iconic
programming
Regards
James
On 14 Jan, 2005, 2005 18:07:59 -0800, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Before writing SuperCard, Bill Appleton wrote CourseBuilder, an
award-winning iconic programming system for courseware that was
eventually used for a wide range of things, even games. When I
interviewed him for a computer journal the month SuperCard was released
I asked him about CourseBuilder, and about iconic programming in
general. His take was pretty much what you wrote: It sounds great on
paper and even demoes well for simple things, but the moment you move
into anything complex you're stuck looking at a spider web of boxes and
lines, the clarity such a design provided initially is long gone, and
you still don't have complex behaviors.
Part of Appleton's motivation for creating SuperCard was his feeling
that textual programming, such as scripting, offered much greater
expressiveness.
Seems us scripters don't have it so bad after all. :)
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
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