Prograph, much like Self, looks to be another tragic visual programming language story (and the moving obituary for the lead developer on the Andescotia Marten website doesn't help!)
As far as I'm aware, the visual dataflow language that gets the most actual use nowadays (albeit in a narrow niche market) is Pure Data. It's an open source project and seems fairly healthy. See http://puredata.info for details. Pd and its commercial cousin, Max/MSP, may be responsible for the common perception I've encountered that visual languages are for artists/musicians/hobbyists, not "real" programmers... but at least they've survived! And, come to think of it, they've brought the creative discipline and joy of programming to many who would never care to get past the ugly syntax and absurdly convoluted workflow of "conventional" languages. May we all live long enough to see better days. -- Max On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Ryan Davis <ryand-f...@zenspider.com>wrote: > On Jun 13, 2011, at 22:03 , David Barbour wrote: > > > I think some recent work by Sean McDirmid may be of interest to the FoNC > audience. > > > > Coding at the Speed of Touch > > http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4257 > > > > This paper describes a programming language with a tile-based development > environment designed for use in tablets. The 'type system', such as it > exists, involves constraints on which tiles can peacefully coexist, and is > used to achieve intelligent suggestions. The language itself is > prototype-based and describes 'continuous' behaviors suitable for animating > characters in a simulation or game. There's a lot of interesting variety for > everyone. > > This reminds me of (and makes me miss) Prograph. I LOVED that language, esp > the visual modularity and the object system. And it could be so much more > now since the visual dataflow programming implied automatic parallelization. > > http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?PrographLanguage > > for some visual idea: http://andescotia.com/products/marten/ > > also some pictures on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prograph > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >
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