Leaving Text Behind Again

Jon Udell wrote a piece (and another) about some technology Jonathan Edwards at SubText is putting together (demo).

Looking at the demo gets me excited about the future of writing code. I get tired of fighting text while trying to express an algorithm. It also reminded me of Prograph CPX which I used for many years.

Prograph was based on the data flow graph that could be built of any algorithm and made a lot of sense. Turns out for Pictorious that being a niche language provider is not very profitable and they moved into professional services a number of years ago and in fact seems to have disappeared.