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Re:The Larch Environment by seanmcdirmid on Saturday September 20, 2014 @06:09PM (#8345726)
Visual programming is a broad term that has been used to describe programming with visual aspects. Lets not even discuss visual programming languages, like Quartz Composer.
Re:The Larch Environment by vegggdor on Saturday September 20, 2014 @06:25PM (#8345766)
Please, do go on!
Re:The Larch Environment by seanmcdirmid on Saturday September 20, 2014 @07:36PM (#8345870)
What else is there to say? Visual-enhanced programming environments are quite comment, to varying degrees of visualness. Heck, MS even once put out something called Visual C++ that was not very visual at all (beyond the IDE being a graphical application). The spectrum is so large, that it is not really useful as a label, you have to compare the programming experiences directly.

As for visual languages, that is whole different kettle of fishies not appropriate for this submission.

Re:The Larch Environment by vegggdor on Sunday September 21, 2014 @06:53AM (#8346814)
I was wondering about your comment on quartz composer, before I noticed that "cisual" is a typo ... I started out on Visual Basic, it certainly helped to lower the barrier to entry a little bit. In the end it was all source text, with helpful library component selection (the timer function had an image of a clock) and ui layout editing.