http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabVIEW
I believe that's an example of visual/graphical programming, it's fairly mainstream in some areas and not vaporware.
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I believe that's an example of visual/graphical programming, it's fairly mainstream in some areas and not vaporware.
Re: Rest of comment - Filtered site, I'll read it at home.
Or in summary I've seen large complicated Labview that's totally write once read never.
You might be interested in screenshots from GNURadio. Same effect. Spaghetti bowl of a schematic where a plain text version would be a lot clearer. Google for a simple WBFM radio with squelch and AFC aka your $5 walkman broadcast radio, and you get something that looks like its launching the space shuttle.
EDIT: I should add, when I did look at the LabView stuffs, it seemed to make sense to me (as a reader), but I'm not sure how easy or difficult it would have been for me to jump into and start working on after someone else has constructed a lot of parts.
To guide intuition without making things tediously formal, most things that can go into an infinite loop are Turing equivalent.
Its a shame that it seems to be based on a "grid" rather than a better data structure. I guess that is why it makes sense to most non programers though.
[1]:http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361K-01/lvconcept...
Likewise with functional programming. I uses small bits here and there when it is appropriate to write cleaner code. I would struggle to build anything of any size using FP.