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By mswatcher
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Published: May 26 2007 / 22:17

If a picture is worth a thousand words, why are almost all of us still programming computers with text? James Reinders wonders if there's any hope for graphical programming languages.
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jonathanlocke replied ago:

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I've long thought that we use linguistic abilities in programming except where it concerns concurrency. That seems to me to be spatial. Perhaps the right approach is to combine language and spatial representations to take advantage of both modes of thinking at the same time.

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