There are plenty of counterexamples. Variations on visual function blocks
abound in engineering circles.
A better question might be whether the HMI bandwidth can be increased
beyond what's possible with a keyboard.
Cheers,
Darren
On May 20, 2014 12:26 PM, "Bardur Arantsson"
On 2014-05-20 20:59, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote:
Can programming be liberated from the plain text file?
No.
I hate to be downer, but every single time I've seen a proposal for this it has failed to account for how, *exactly*, it is actually different in any meaningful way from the failed attempts at addressing this issue. I've often been quite tempted to draw up a checklist à la the infamous spam-fighting checklist for why $YOUR_IDEA_FOR_NON-TEXT-BASED_PROGRAMMING won't work -- at the very least it'd serve as a time-saver whenever this comes up :).
We can all dream, but unless and until someone comes up with something *radically* different from previous attempts, it just ain't going to happen.
Regards,
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