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From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ?
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In article <599g39$l5v@gaia.ns.utk.edu> mbk@caffeine.engr.utk.edu (Matt Kennel) writes:

> Tom Bushell (tbushell@fox.nstn.ns.ca) wrote:
> : On Tue, 17 Dec 1996 00:45:47 -0800, Tansel Ersavas <tansel@deep.net>
> : wrote:
> 
> : >I think, we can now show people how visual programming can really bump
> : >up their productivity. It also accelerates learning, and promotes more
> : >high level thinking. Visual programming is to textual programming what
> : >is textual programming to assembly language.
> 
> : Good analogy.
> 
> Is it really?

Typically, no.

> Can a painting communicate subtle ideas as clearly as literature?

In general, no.  Also, they don't convey abstract ideas too well
either.

And it is a well known problem that it is rather difficult to convey
information consisting of many dimensions (facets) visually that does
not lose semantic content.  3D even 4D, not too much a problem.
100-D?  Infinite-D?  How about transfinite?  These are all more or
less trivial to capture algebraically.

/Jon

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