[mercury-users] Visual Programming

[Robert Ernst Johann JESCHOFNIK]

On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Ralph Becket wrote:

> has lots of nice properties.  It also has a lot of practical problems:
> how do you neatly lay out graphical programs?  How do you debug them
> (many graph based languages can have several redexes on the go at once)?

I know it wouldn't help entirely, but working in 3d instead of a flat
sheet (2d) would probably help a lot.
Complex relationships would still end up looking like a complete mess of
links, however. The way to minimise this mess would be the analogue of
"style" in textual programming, I guess.


Rob
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