Demos like this are cool, but they make me think that we'll never see a non-toy visual programming tool. Even a fairly simple bit of logic quickly becomes an incomprehensible soup of interconnections. edit: Thinking about it a bit more, whats lacking in all the examples of visual programming I've seen is a clean way to build abstractions. It would take a while to learn to efficently read and style visual code just li…
VPLs are well known to be challenged by what Burnette et. al (the principle behind Forms/3) calls the scaling up problem. The problem is that language is great at metaphor, which is the basis of abstraction. For better or worse, language is based on words, and we have specialized hardware (in our brain) optimized for it. Until we evolve communication in an abstraction-dense format that isn't based on words, I don't t…
Animated GIFs, perhaps. :)