Re:Fabrik – A Visual Programming Environment (1988)
by clouddrover on Saturday July 16, 2016 @05:25AM
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> are there any programming kits today that have all three of these attributes?
While not a fully visual development environment, I'd say Delphi. I think they got the design right 21 years ago. They struck the right balance between visual and non-visual development and married that to a language (Object Pascal) which had fast compilation, directness, and simplicity while also offering low-level capability.
Chuck Jazdzewski was one of the original Delphi developers. Last year he wrote a series of articles on the early days of Delphi: http://removingalldoubt.com/
Re:Fabrik – A Visual Programming Environment (1988)
by boduh on Saturday July 16, 2016 @07:48PM
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The articles from Chuck Jazdzewski made my day. I sometimes wonder what the early members of the Delphi team are working on today. Thanks for sharing the link!
While not a fully visual development environment, I'd say Delphi. I think they got the design right 21 years ago. They struck the right balance between visual and non-visual development and married that to a language (Object Pascal) which had fast compilation, directness, and simplicity while also offering low-level capability.
Chuck Jazdzewski was one of the original Delphi developers. Last year he wrote a series of articles on the early days of Delphi: http://removingalldoubt.com/
It's a shame Object Pascal isn't more widely used. It's a nice language. Maybe Free Pascal (http://www.freepascal.org) and Lazarus (http://www.lazarus-ide.org/) can spread the Pascal gospel.