Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!nosc!logicon.arpa!trantor.harris-atd.com!claire!ellery From: ellery@claire.harris-atd.com (Ellery Chan) Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng Subject: Re: Visual Languages Keywords: visual programming Message-ID: <2685@trantor.harris-atd.com> Date: 15 Sep 89 21:49:01 GMT References: Sender: news@trantor.harris-atd.com Reply-To: ellery@trantor.harris-atd.com (Ellery Chan) Distribution: comp Organization: Advanced Technology Dept., Harris Corp., Melbourne, Fl. Lines: 19 In article creubank@crls.sony.co.jp (Curtis Eubanks) writes: >... Ideally, a user who >knows nothing but some very basic interaction skill (moving the mouse, >clicking, and perhaps typing) can walk up to a visual programming >system and start programming immediately. Realistically, this might >be impossible. It seems that non-programmers are usually not used to breaking a problem down into a sequence of operations. To be successful, I think the set of operations available to the non-programmer would have to be limited to very high level operations with very flexible methods for combining those operations. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ellery Chan | ARPA : ellery@trantor.harris-atd.com Harris Corp., MS 3A-1912 | USENET: ...!uunet!x102a!trantor!ellery PO Box 37, Melbourne, FL 32902 | AT&T : (407) 729-3364 --------------------------------------------------------------------------