From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,195c195fb87402ec X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!d9g2000prh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: jpwoodruff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Just a Thought Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:00:51 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <51d0cb33-60e3-43bd-b8c9-497a4f9ec8f1@d9g2000prh.googlegroups.com> References: <7m4d1dF3gqmkpU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.103.238.65 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1258135251 1677 127.0.0.1 (13 Nov 2009 18:00:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:00:51 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d9g2000prh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.103.238.65; posting-account=eLk0BgoAAAA-yA75xm1L7heSizMaESVg User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.15) Gecko/2009101601 Firefox/3.0.15,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8089 Date: 2009-11-13T10:00:51-08:00 List-Id: On Nov 13, 12:07=A0am, tmo...@acm.org wrote: > > This means that we could write programs using icons and put together th= e > > commands in a graphical manner. This would lead to easier programming, > > faster bug fixing and better programs. > > =A0 Sort of like WYSIWYG editors have led to faster writing, fewer errors= , > and better literature? Well, two out of three ain't bad faster: certainly faster than *my* pencil; fewer : superior to white-out; better: still working on that... John