From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Subject: Re: Typing Ada
Date: 26 May 88 12:40:39 GMT [thread overview]
Date: Thu May 26 08:40:39 1988
Message-ID: <2780@geac.UUCP> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1017@cresswell.quintus.UUCP
In article <25135.580491166@mbunix>, munck@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (Bob Munck) writes:
| People can "read"
| pictures better than words in a row; machines, until recently, couldn't
| do anything at all with pictures and could handle only very simple
| sequences of words (programming languages). I think it likely that Ada
| will be the LAST major one-dimensional programming language.
In article <1017@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
| People can read *some* *small* pictures better than they can read text
| conveying the same information. But it doesn't seem plausible to me that
| a program which would have been say 50k lines of ADA would be easy to
| follow as a collection of several thousand pictures.
I think you're both right. Details are often best shown in text,
general structure in pictures. I'd certainly prefer to walk a
call/rendesvous structure in pictoral form than by reading text, and
reason about the details by reading code and not pictographs.
--dave (horses for courses, perhaps) c-b
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1988-05-10 16:28 Typing Ada Bob Munck
1988-05-24 3:51 ` Rick Conn
1988-05-24 15:32 ` Bob Munck
1988-05-24 23:06 ` Rick Conn
1988-05-25 16:49 ` Eugene N. Miya
1988-05-25 5:53 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1988-05-25 16:57 ` Randy Neff
1988-05-26 14:14 ` Robert Eachus
1988-05-26 12:40 ` David Collier-Brown [this message]
1988-05-25 13:30 ` Roger Racine
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1988-05-12 17:28 zellich
1988-05-20 12:51 Karl A. Nyberg
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