Re: TechNote 2106
Re: TechNote 2106
- Subject: Re: TechNote 2106
- From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 13:28:48 -0800
At 01:27p -0600 03/07/2004, Michael Grant didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
On Mar 6, 2004, at 7:47 PM, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
Now, if there were an editor which let you write a program as a
flow chart and then edit code within the blocks of the diagram,
that would be amazing.
I could swear I read somewhere about a completely graphical
programming environment (not sure whether to call it a "language"),
but for the life of me I can't remember where or what it was called.
Something for OS X or something older?
There was Helix, a database language which was so graphical that in
order to get a plus sign, you had to click a plus icon. I took one
look at that, and said "That's nuts."
I don't want something *completely* graphical; I just want something
*organized* that way. Black boxes with contents and properties.
Flowchart-scripting, as it were. A healthy third-party industry could
come of making smart black boxes. Hmmm, sounds like OpenDoc part
editors or java beans... except that I envision these as
user-editable, since they'd be more like templates/stationery.
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change
something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
- Buckminster Fuller
That works. :-)
-boo
who used to dream of geodesic tinkertoys
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