Grail Demo from CHM tape

i find it fascinating how often "DAG's will replace code" gets reinvented. Here's one of the earliest from the 1960s: link to this video I still see it getting reinvented as a new idea. I get YouTube ads about startups selling the exact same bullshit (now it's in a webapp instead of a serial terminal or a DOS program.) A person could write a whole academic thesis just on the history of all of these systems, and the absolute belligerent disinterest in ever learning any lessons from the previous attempts. I consider someone seriously pitching one of these to be basically an instant disqualification for ever having any sort of serious discussion with them about software development. Ironically, it w…

…ng complex abstract ideas. And programming is necessarily about expressing complex abstract ideas. The toolset will never take away the need to clarify your own thinking about what you want the machine to do, or the need to clearly express that desire in a way the machine can execute. Programming "visually" with a DAG dates back to the 1960's! link to this video It's been re-invented over and over again with Zero lessons learned every generation because there are some real widespread misunderstandings about what programming is, and what actually makes it hard.…

Visual programming in the 60s. [video