On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 02:56 am, BartC wrote: > (And I expect that next they will eliminate languages altogether. All > you need is some way of specifying a sequence of calls to library > functions and sprinkling around some control statements;
That would be called "a language". > it could be > drag-and-drop with a GUI display of the program flow.) It could be, but won't be. Outside of a very few tiny niches, including Squeak which is designed for children, such user-interfaces are far too cumbersome to ever get widespread use. But for limited niches, like generating GUIs, form designers, or even assembling regular expressions, sure, why not? -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list