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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.visual,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: metaphor and programming
Message-ID: <5483@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 89 13:55:33 GMT
References: <7000@ficc.uu.net>
Organization: University of Hawaii
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From article <7000@ficc.uu.net>, by peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva):
" You know, a case could be made that a spreadhseet *is* a visual programming
" language. ...

Don't forget Adventure -- a type of program people love to write
and use.  Natural language interface.  Dynamic linking and
unlinking (`pick up knapsack' ...).  Variable information
hiding as a function of the state of computation (`look').
Autonomous agents. ...
				Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu