samir, a terminally deprecated methodAn idea that may or may not be terrible, written down so I can get it out of my head and into someone who can do something about it.
What if we started from scratch with code represented as graphs, not text?
It goes without saying, but I’m saying it anyway: if you disagree with me on this, I want to hear it.
Terence Eden@samir have you seen the DRAKON programming language?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/04/why-arent-there-more-visual-programming-languages-an-ode-to-drakon/
I find it useful for a certain class of algorithm design.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/04/why-arent-there-more-visual-programming-languages-an-ode-to-drakon/
I find it useful for a certain class of algorithm design.
Why aren't there more visual programming languages? (An ode to DRAKON)
I think the computer programming industry is about to reach a reckoning. No, not because ChatGPT can poorly plagiarise buggy code - but because a whole generation of kids have grown up with Scratch. And they'll want professional tools which have Scratch's level of usability. Hand-coding YAML files is a mug's game; one wrong whitespace and everything is broken. Left a semi-colon off the end of a…
@Edent That’s very cool! I’ll check it out.