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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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