From: Mike Stephens Date: 2009-08-05T16:58:34+09:00 Subject: Re: How Come Ruby is Text-Oriented? David Masover wrote: > > You can see some of that with Visual Basic, though it isn't truly > "visual" in > the sense being discussed here Visual Basic is a good example of an attempt to be more integrated - automatically naming methods, syntax help, screen painting, debuggers etc. I guess all these are available for Ruby but it's a bit like building a plane in your garage just from some drawings, rather than picking it up from the salesman. Quite by chance last Friday I was introduced to a visual ('model-driven') platform called Mendix. In the past I've been involved with a different type of visual programming system - Erudine. That uses conceptual graphs. I doubt visual systems are faster than an expert textual programmer but it's interesting that the expert is still the focus of attention - what is Microsoft doing to continue the accessibility of Access (supposedly Bill Gates' favorite product)? Mind you, I don't know why I'm saying this - all our jobs are going to India as it is; we don't want to lose any more. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.