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Re: Programming the RCX...
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 9 Apr 2001 04:16:13 GMT
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Steve Baker <sjbaker1@^ihatespam^airmail.net>
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Dean Hystad wrote:
> I have to disagree. I personally have three fairly significant robotic
> applications in the field which were developed using a visual programming
> language. I must confess that the language was not purely visual. The
> software IC components were written in Pascal.
Connecting data paths between conventionally programmed chunks is not
the same thing as "programming".
> So theoretically, once the grammar was built up of
> enough simple components, you could do away with text based programming
> altogether.
Yeah - *theoretically* - but in practice, people don't do that.
> Finally, don't forget the millions of systems controlled by Programmable
> Logic Controllers (PLC's) running ladder programs. I guess all those
> machines out there building the airplanes we fly in, the cars we drive, the
> appliances we use, or processing the materials for the house we live in must
> not be "real".
But it's still not a visual programming language...it doesn't take the input
description and generate the machine code for the application.
Those things don't fall into the realm of "programming" any more than
dragging and dropping an icon on your Windoze desktop is programming.
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| (...) I have hard time seeing how taking simple constructs and organizing them into something which exhibits a behavior not anticipated by the author of the constructs is not programming. How does it differ from arranging textual tokens in a (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I have to disagree. I personally have three fairly significant robotic applications in the field which were developed using a visual programming language. I must confess that the language was not purely visual. The software IC components were (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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