Visual Programming – Why It’s a Bad Idea

Re:Visual Programming – Why It’s a Bad Idea by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @01:38PM (#18496384)

Indeed. I once thought as the author did, and as I'm sure many programmers do, that things like VB and Flash and Excel macros were a blight upon the world. But a lot of useful work got done with VB, careers were launched from humble beginnings on Newgrounds, and Excel is one of, if not the most, popular tools in all of business.

I think John Ohno does a good job of articulating what's so great about these tools in his article "Big and small computing" [0].

[0] https://hackernoon.com/big-and-small-computing-73dc49901b9a

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Re:Visual Programming – Why It’s a Bad Idea by maxxxxx on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @01:46PM (#18496483)

VB and Excel have the advantage of having full blown programming language behind them so you can implement very complex things. I compare this to Labview where everything is visual and things get out of control pretty quickly.

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Re:Visual Programming – Why It’s a Bad Idea by blbviviv on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @01:21PM (#18504777)

Labview has m-script (which is matlab like)

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Re:Visual Programming – Why It’s a Bad Idea by maxxxxx on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @01:24PM (#18504809)

How does this relate to the visual programming stuff? Can you go back and forth or is it a separate thing?

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Re:Visual Programming – Why It’s a Bad Idea by posterboy on Saturday November 24, 2018 @08:22AM (#18521876)

It is used to write additional components to be used in the visual editor. A code block, like a custom macro in spreadsheets.

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