Full Metal Jacket: A Visual Programming Language Based on Lisp

Re:Full Metal Jacket: A Visual Programming Language Based on... by cs702 on Saturday July 16, 2016 @11:26AM (#12106644)

This is an interesting, worthwhile project, but the headline, "text-based languages are so 20th century," struck me as naively arrogant.

There are a TON of interesting '21st century' things being done with the "text-based languages" this website dismisses.

BTW, that website is so 20th century.

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Re:Full Metal Jacket: A Visual Programming Language Based on... by white-flame on Saturday July 16, 2016 @02:06PM (#12107288)

And to be honest, the visual programming language fad for "actual" use was so 20th century as well. Visual programming has found a bit of a home with "programming for non-programmers" around kids'/intro stuff and some game tools.

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Re:Full Metal Jacket: A Visual Programming Language Based on... by mpbm on Saturday July 16, 2016 @02:42PM (#12107403)

I'm working on something similar and I agree with him. Writing is literally stone-age technology. It's adequate for many things, but it's only got one feature. We need something with more dimensions.

There were a lot of attempts at touch-based interfaces before someone finally got it right and everyone went "Oh, that's how that's supposed to work."

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