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Re:The Larch Environment by lispm on Saturday September 20, 2014 @05:28PM (#8345636)
I don't think Lighttalble is a visual programming environment. Last I looked it just had some visual enhancements, but the code is plain old text in files.
Re:The Larch Environment by mtrimpe on Saturday September 20, 2014 @05:57PM (#8345697)
It's meant to be. It has the infrastructure to be. It just doesn't have the documentation and ecosystem to show how.
Re:The Larch Environment by ibdknox on Saturday September 20, 2014 @06:16PM (#8345743)
My original goal wasn't ever to really create a visual programming environment, though the mismatch here might just be us using the term "visual" differently. We wanted to make something that allowed people to create whatever representation of their code/project/etc they want, but I didn't really expect that to ever turn into code generation via graphical media.

Code Bubbles isn't visual programming as the term is typically used, it's just a way of organizing text in a more meaningful way.

Re:The Larch Environment by mtrimpe on Sunday September 21, 2014 @05:32AM (#8346721)
True, I meant to refer to the visual 'augmented' programming as demonstrated in the Larch project. Not classical 'visual programming.'