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Re: Beyond literate programming...by jynx (Priest) |
on Feb 21, 2001 at 05:42 UTC ( [id://59822]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
How much could a program be beautiful and easy to comprehend? < humor> hmmm, don't know, why not read erudil's There can be only one and find out? </humor> Seriously, The main problem i have with graphic tools to do code programming is that for the most part they don't allow enough flexibility and creativity from the programmer. Coding html* with a page editor may be easier, but getting into the thick of it with some (gasp-in-horror) javascript with layers and (please-stop-it-hurts) java for interactivity and (thanks-for-the-reprieve) perl for the amusing stuff is a lot more powerful and comprehensive than a couple links on a badly colored site**. What i mean to say is that coding by hand from someone who knows what they're doing is a much more powerful, flexible idiom. Coding graphically may be useful to the novice to understand things, but if they are ever to rise up to be a great programmer they need to understand the underlying material as well, which doesn't get conveyed well, if at all, in graphic-based programming. These are at least my opinions of the state of it so far...
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