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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham 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-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!nuzba.szn.dk!news.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Just a Thought Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:18:43 +0100 Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Message-ID: References: <7m4d1dF3gqmkpU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 79.138.224.16.bredband.3.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: munin.nbi.dk 1258100324 1195 79.138.224.16 (13 Nov 2009 08:18:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:18:44 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6gBhnmQaWsxd00mMIZUGlzOGMo0= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8078 Date: 2009-11-13T09:18:43+01:00 List-Id: Georg Maubach wrote: > in the last years efforts have been made to make programming easier > and understandble by kids. > > What if we would apply this approach to the Ada programming > language? This means that we could write programs using icons and > put together the commands in a graphical manner. This would lead to > easier programming, faster bug fixing and better programs. If it should make sense, it should be possible to convert programs both ways. Typical tools of this kind are just ordinary one-way compilers. My experience with these "easier" and "understandable" programming tools (Labview and NXT) is that they are neither. Or rather; they only make a _very_ limited subset of programming easier and understandable. Greetings, Jacob -- Rent-a-Minion Inc. Because good help is so hard to find.