Why aren't there more visual programming languages? (An ode to DRAKON)
drakon programming · 10 comments · 350 words · read ~314 times.
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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