Rough design for touch-based rapid Flow-drawing

[Ruud Steltenpool]

As Processes&Channels relate to Nodes&Edges similarly to how Concepts&Relations relate to Nodes&Edges, maybe page 2 shown in https://mobile.twitter.com/steltenpower/status/996690255200903168 has some inspiration

[paul tarvydas]

Thoughts:

I believe in using drawings for programming (DaS - diagrams as syntax). 

Imagine using a version of Emacs that only used a mouse or one (or two) fingers, and no keyboard.  

Unusable for real programming.  

DaS needs an editor that is as useful as Emacs (insert your editor of choice).  One should be able to use all 10 fingers to edit.  One should be allowed to create and save "illegal" programs (resume and fix up later).

All existing paradigms for creating diagrams (e.g. Visio) are horrible for programming (to the best of my knowledge).  Most diagram editors are made for creating diagrams, not programs.  

Throw away the mouse, throw away touch.

pt

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 7:19 PM, Ruud Steltenpool <goo...@steltenpower.com> wrote:

As Processes&Channels relate to Nodes&Edges similarly to how Concepts&Relations relate to Nodes&Edges, maybe page 2 shown in https://mobile.twitter.com/steltenpower/status/996690255200903168 has some inspiration

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[Paul Morrison]

On Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 9:06:37 AM UTC-4, Paul Tarvydas wrote:

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All existing paradigms for creating diagrams (e.g. Visio) are horrible for programming (to the best of my knowledge).  Most diagram editors are made for creating diagrams, not programs.  

Of course with the exception of DrawFBP!  As I have said many times, IMO the best way to build an application is by using stepwise refinement - and for the upper levels you need to be able to add nodes that don't have actual code components associated with them. 

BTW it looks like DrawFBP would be fairly easy to convert to touch!