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Visual Programming

PostPosted: Sep 24, 2004 @ 2:57am
by kornalius

PostPosted: Sep 24, 2004 @ 3:56pm
by bmanske

PostPosted: Sep 24, 2004 @ 4:17pm
by PointOfLight
What he said :) Seriously, though, I do agree with Brad. I have also tried some visual tools in the past, and have never been real happy with them. The one exception is a tool that goes "both ways" - start me off visual, then let me tweak everything by hand. It will be interesting to see what you come up with on these two projects (and of course, I'll be more than happy to test).

PostPosted: Sep 24, 2004 @ 4:32pm
by kornalius

PostPosted: Sep 24, 2004 @ 5:10pm
by PointOfLight

PostPosted: Sep 24, 2004 @ 5:53pm
by bmanske
I once used a UML tool that didn't allow roundtripping. That was back before Rational became the leader. I want to say that it was called "Prosac" or something like that. But remembering it maybe I just want the drug by the same name?

The other tool I used was a DSP tool for signal processing applications. It let you build a diagram of how to process your signal. It was horrifically inefficient. It didn't do what I needed and I had to learn how to create its specialized modules (negating the whole point of the visual environment). Then to my great relief, managements love for this tool faded and I got to use C.

Brad

PostPosted: Sep 28, 2004 @ 2:01am
by kornalius
Wasn't it called ProGraph?

Anyway, the visual tool here won't be anything like a UML. It will be far more easier to use and more useful when building bigger programs.

PostPosted: Sep 28, 2004 @ 3:01pm
by bmanske