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- From: landay+@cs.cmu.edu (James A Landay)
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- Subject: Re: is VB a VL?
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 20:47:23 GMT
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- Please, describe visual BASIC for us. Even if it turns out to be a
- visual language (which it probably is by Brad's definition), I am
- not sure this is the appropriate place to ask for technical help
- concerning visual BASIC.
-
- In article <1828@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl> elkassas@ebs.eb.ele.tue.nl (sherif el kassas) writes:
- >Hi all,
- >Just wanted to ask:
- > Is Visual BASIC a visual programming language?
- >
- >Thanks,
- >Sherif
- >
- >PS No flames intended.
- >PPS The following is a definition of VLs based on [Myers, 1989].
- >-----------------------------------------------------------
- >A visual language is a language that allows its users to
- >specify their constructs in two or more dimensions.
- >Examples of such languages include: flowcharts and dataflow
- >diagrams.
- >
- >@incollection{Mye,
- > author = "Myers, B. A.",
- > title = "The State of the Art in Visual Programming and Program Visualization",
- > editor = "Kilgour, A. and Earnshaw, R.",
- > Booktitle = "Graphics Tools for Software Engineers",
- > publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
- > year = "1989"
- >}
- >-----------------------------------------------------------
- >
- >
- >Sherif El-Kassas, elkassas@eb.ele.tue.nl . :.
- >Digital Systems Group (EB), EH 11.29 \_____o__/ __________
- >Eindhoven University of Technology, .. /
- >5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands. /
-
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- James A. Landay
- landay@cs.cmu.edu
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