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name: 'Prograph: Picture the Future'
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short: ''
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date: 'Thu Oct 13 1994 18:00:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)'
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location: 'DC 1302'
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What is the next step in the evolution of computer languages? Intelligent agents? Distributed objects? or visual languages?
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Visual languages overcome many of the drawbacks and limitations of the textual languages that software development is based on today. Do you think about programming in a linear fashion? Or do you draw a mental picture of your algorithm and then linearize it for the benefit of your compiler? Wouldn't it be nice if you could code the same way you think?
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Visual C++ and Visual BASIC aren't visual languages, but Prograph is. Prograph is a commercially available, visual, object-oriented, data-flow language. It is well suited to graphical user interface development, but is as powerful for general-purpose programming as any textual language.
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The talk will comprise a discussion of the problems of textual languages that visual languages solve, a live demonstration of Prograph, and some of my observations of the applications of Prograph to software development.
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