On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 21:21 +1100, James Baker wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 9:08 PM, thor <th.list_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It's interesting in this context that probably the only commonly used visual
> > programming
> > languages are indeed used for sound (Pd and Max). I can't think of a visual
> > programming
> > language in such common use for non-musical tasks.
>
> It seems the visual / dataflow paradigm has been popular in some
> engineering circles i.e LabVIEW
>
> http://www.ni.com/labview/
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabVIEW
Matlab's thing as well:
http://www.mathworks.co.uk/products/simulink/
UML - rational rose and friends is probably the commonest visual
programming system. Admittedly I've only met a few programmers who use
them, but they do tend to be exceedingly well paid...
Also, virtools is quite well used for game dev:
http://images.gamedev.net/features/reviews/virtools/Image1.png
And a lot of 3D graphics packages have interfaces like this these days:
http://members.gamedev.net/milkshake/images/MayaSkinningHypergraph.jpg
The difference between text and graphical programming seems fairly
arbitrary to me, especially with the advent of IDE's on steroids like
MSVC, Eclipse and DrScheme:
http://plt-scheme.org/screenshots/graphical-syntax.jpg
cheers,
dave
Received on Mon Oct 05 2009 - 10:31:07 BST
