don@BRILLIG.UMD.EDU (Don Hopkins) (09/09/89)
A great book about visual programming is: Visual Programming Nan C. Shu (C) 1988 by Van Nostrand Reinhold ISBN: 0-442-28014-9 Lots and lots of pictures of many different systems! Check out the Tinkertoy Lisp code displayed in fig. 12-2, p. 290. Imagine PostScript functions with multiple outputs on the right as well as multiple inputs on the left! -Don
bob@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (09/09/89)
In article <8909090308.AA23289@brillig.umd.edu> don@BRILLIG.UMD.EDU (Don Hopkins) writes:
Imagine PostScript functions with multiple outputs on the right as
well as multiple inputs on the left!
Sounds like PIGS on the old Evans & Sutherland workstations. You
could type in a dataflow language, or you could edit a circuit diagram
and have the language spit out the back for digestion by the compiler.
I think PostScript would be a nicer language in which to express the
system, though.