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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/Edent/statuses/113685919068112141">Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 07:20:24 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Edent" title="edent@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/22733-48-20230408091952.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Terence Eden" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Terence Eden</a><div><a href="https://mastodon.functional.computer/@samir/113685854525543693" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p><a href="https://mastodon.functional.computer/@samir">@samir</a> have you seen the DRAKON programming language?<br><a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/04/why-arent-there-more-visual-programming-languages-an-ode-to-drakon/" rel="nofollow">https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/04/why-arent-there-more-visual-programming-languages-an-ode-to-drakon/</a><br>I find it useful for a certain class of algorithm design.</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4226831#notice-8260570">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-12-21T07:20:24+09:00" title="Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 07:20:24 JST">about 5 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://gnusocial.jp/notice/8260570" rel="external" title="Sent from gnusocial.jp via ActivityPub">gnusocial.jp</a></span></span><a href="https://gnusocial.jp/notice/8260570">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: shkspr.mobi</div><h5><a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/04/why-arent-there-more-visual-programming-languages-an-ode-to-drakon/">Why aren't there more visual programming languages? (An ode to DRAKON)</a></h5><div> from <span>@edent</span></div></header><div>I think the computer programming industry is about to reach a reckoning. No, not because ChatGPT can poorly plagiarise buggy code - but because a whole generation of kids have grown up with Scratch. And they'll want professional tools which have Scratch's level of usability. Hand-coding YAML files is a mug's game; one wrong whitespace and everything is broken. Left a semi-colon off the end of a line of code; watch the compiler moan. Mixed up your ints, floats, and strings; the computer has a…</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 07:20:24 JSTTerence Eden
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@samir have you seen the DRAKON programming language?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/04/why-arent-there-more-visual-programming-languages-an-ode-to-drakon/
I find it useful for a certain class of algorithm design.
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  I think the computer programming industry is about to reach a reckoning. No, not because ChatGPT can poorly plagiarise buggy code - but because a whole generation of kids have grown up with Scratch. And they'll want professional tools which have Scratch's level of usability. Hand-coding YAML files is a mug's game; one wrong whitespace and everything is broken. Left a semi-colon off the end of a line of code; watch the compiler moan. Mixed up your ints, floats, and strings; the computer has a…

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