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Re:MIT creates picture-driven programming for the masses by sp332 on Friday January 22, 2010 @11:01AM (#1069881)
Did you even read the article? This isn't a visual scripting environment, it's an intuitive way to use Python to do image processing.

Edit: here's a paper with examples. http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/projects/sikuli/sikuli-uist2...

Re:MIT creates picture-driven programming for the masses by physcab on Friday January 22, 2010 @12:37PM (#1070138)
Ah. You're right. I misread it. However, I stand by my points on visual scripting in general. Even if there is a way to automate certain tasks via GUI elements, you are placing a great deal of trust on the system to operate as expected.

I do quite a bit of research in machine learning, and I can say that these systems are never perfect. Building an abstraction on top of an image processing technique is interesting, but I really wonder how a system like that can be debugged if something goes wrong.