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From: de@comp.lancs.ac.uk (David England)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Visual programming
Message-ID: <256@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 2-Jul-86 10:09:07 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  2 10:09:07 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jul-86 06:52:33 EDT
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Reply-To: de@comp.lancs.ac.uk (David England)
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
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In article <525@ccird1.UUCP> rb@ccird1.UUCP (Rex Ballard) writes:
>In article <240@comp.lancs.ac.uk> de@comp.lancs.ac.uk (David England) writes:
>>... and as far as the human->compiler side of things is concerned the days
>>of languages are numbered. Visual programming and spatial data management
>>are the "languages" of the future.
>>etc
>>-- 
>
>Good point Dave, I hope you are right, that the era of "text oriented"
>systems is on the way out.  What information do people have on
>visual programming? 

Some pointers to visual programming etc;

diSessa A, Notes on the future of Programming in, "User Centered System
Design" (eds. Norman D. A., Draper S W), Erlbaum, 1986

Shneiderman B, Direct manipulation: A step beyond programming languages,
IEEE Computer 16(8), 57-69, 1983.

Plus the follow up articles referenced in the above and try playing with
Mac/Smalltalk/Logo - together is best but separately is just as
instructive and fun.

Hopefully programming will be transformed into Design specification based
on catalogues of reusable components like other more mature engineering
disciplines.

-- 
     Dave    uucp: ...!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!de
	     arpa: de%lancs.comp@ucl-cs

"And now I know how Joan of Arc felt/As the flames rose/To her Roman nose/
And her Walkman started to melt"