Noddy's guide to visual programming (1995) [1 citations — 0 self]
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by Thomas Green
The British Computer Society Human-Computer Group
ftp://ftp.mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk/pub/personal/tg/NoddyOnVPLs.ps
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Abstract:
(VP) refers to any system that allows the user to specify a program in a two-(or more)-dimensional fashion. Although this is a very broad definition, conventional textual languages are not considered two-dimensional since the compilers or interpreters process them as long, one-dimensional streams. " This computer-centered viewpoint is fairly standard in the computing science (CS) fraternity. Typographers, on the other hand, might take a more person-centered stance, arguing that programming languages lie on a continuum, depending on how much use can be made of graph ical elements (e.g. blank lines, indenting) to communicate something to the reader. I shall use VPL (visual programming language) in Myers's
