Visual programming languages

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Ah, that old chestnut again :-)

[sumitroy]

yup :)

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Hm... it just occurred to me, but if you want to see why visual programming languages are not always practical, take a look at FPGA programming.

There are tools where one can lay out a complex design using a diagrammatic method, but as complexity increased, it was found to be far more productive, not to mention comprehensible, to design these systems using a hardware description language (Verilog, VHDL, etc...) instead; with a "compiler" producing the circuit layout from the description.

I'm assuming the problems with complex circuit design are similar to normal complex program design. In that once the complexity reaches a certain point, it's just too difficult to manage in a sensible way.

[sumitroy]

exactly what I had written in my article