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Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 07:20:24 JST

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Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 07:20:24 JST Terence Eden
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- samir, müüüüüüüüüüde
@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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  Why aren't there more visual programming languages? (An ode to DRAKON)
  
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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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