IDE's that are not glorified text editors

A tour of the history of programming languages, and overview of (IMHO mostly failed) experiments in visual programming.

There is still much potential here, even though past attempts have mostly failed spectacularly.

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1. IDE'S THAT ARE NOT GLORIFIED TEXT EDITORS Arnout Engelen
2. INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT The ideal environment to create code.
3. CODE
4. ADA LOVELACE, 1843
5. ENIAC, ~1945 An ENIAC program: a wiring diagram
6. ENIAC, ~1945 An ENIAC program: a wiring diagram
7. 1951: A-0 Grace Hopper Punch cards Assembly Subroutines Loops The first Compiler
8. 1957: FORTRAN
10. 1957: FORTRAN F U N C T I O N N G C D ( N A , N B ) I A = N A I B = N B 1 I F ( I B . N E . 0 ) T H E N I T E M P = I A I A = I B I B = M O D ( I T E M P , I B ) G O T O 1 E N D I F N G C D = I A R E T U R N E N D
11. 1958 LISP ( d e f u n f i b o n a c c i ( N ) ( i f ( o r ( z e r o p N ) ( = N 1 ) ) 1 ( l e t ( ( F 1 ( f i b o n a c c i ( ­ N 1 ) ) ) ( F 2 ( f i b o n a c c i ( ­ N 2 ) ) ) ) ( + F 1 F 2 ) ) ) ) < a s i d e c l a s s = " n o t e s " > c l o j u r e : m o d e r n ­ d a y < / a s i d e >
12. 1958: ALGOL f o r q : = 1 s t e p 1 u n t i l m d o i f a b s ( a [ p , q ] ) > y t h e n b e g i n y : = a b s ( a [ p , q ] ) ; i : = p ; k : = q e n d Structure in the language: Nested block structure Lexical scoping
13. MODERN-DAY PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES semicolon after each statement? opening/closing blocks? escaping strings? ... other 'syntax errors' We're still struggling with syntax!
14. EXPERIMENTS IN VISUAL PROGRAMMING STYLES
15. MICROSOFT VPL
16. EXECUTABLE UML
18. MODELING 'BUSINESS PROCESSES' (BPEL)
19. TOY/EDUCATION LANGUAGES
20. MIT Scratch, Google blockly
21. SPECIFIC DOMAINS: PUREDATA
23. LIVE CODE Real live documentation No compile step No syntax errors
24. DOES IT SCALE?
25. DOES IT SCALE?
26. RE-CAP
27. MESSAGE WHERE'S THE NEXT REVOLUTION?
28. EPILOGUE WHY SHOULD WE CARE? WE'RE SMART ENOUGH.
29. THE END