Re: The ULTIMATE Cocoa Development Language
Re: The ULTIMATE Cocoa Development Language
- Subject: Re: The ULTIMATE Cocoa Development Language
- From: Michael Grant <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 18:12:21 -0600
On 1/3/02 5:19 PM, "Steve Schacht" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Prograph is a full blown graphical, object oriented, and data flow LANGUAGE
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as well as an IDE. It is, in my opinion, the most awesome software
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development environment ever to be created. It still blows my mind how far
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ahead of its time it was (and still is, I guess). Mind you, this is an
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actual graphical language. You create what amounts to a data flow diagram
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which then gets compiled. There's no textual syntax at all. The diagram IS
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the code. You could then run and debug the app, changing values and program
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flow on the fly. This is _not_ some special purpose visual engineering
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"language" like LabView or some such. This is a general purpose programming
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language which even allows you to drop down to the Mac Toolbox level if
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necessary (or the Windows API on that platform). Prograph is to programming
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languages what the Macintosh is to personal computers (especially when the
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Mac first emerged with its graphical interface while almost everyone else
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was working from a command line).
Hmm, something like Helix for databases? Did that ever get carbonated?
Michael
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