On 2026-01-12, rbowman wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:39:01 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
Those are diffs of text files. If you applied them to something written
in a visual programming language the best you?d get is a diff of
whatever internal representation the language implementation used.
Okay, got it. I was associating 'visual' with Visual C++ etc, not Scratch. >> I didn't know that was used outside of grade school.
While I do not have much experience with this kind of programming, I've
at least encountered Simulink and Grafcet.
On 2026-01-13 00:40, Nuno Silva wrote:
On 2026-01-12, rbowman wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:39:01 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
Those are diffs of text files. If you applied them to something written >>>> in a visual programming language the best you?d get is a diff of
whatever internal representation the language implementation used.
Okay, got it. I was associating 'visual' with Visual C++ etc, not Scratch. >>> I didn't know that was used outside of grade school.
While I do not have much experience with this kind of programming, I've
at least encountered Simulink and Grafcet.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabVIEW>
You can see here how the code looks, it is a box graphic:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabVIEW#/media/File:Labview_code_example.png>
Despite the name, it is not only for use in labs, we did production
code for factories.
On 2026-01-15, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 2026-01-13 00:40, Nuno Silva wrote:
On 2026-01-12, rbowman wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:39:01 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
Those are diffs of text files. If you applied them to something written >>>>> in a visual programming language the best you?d get is a diff of
whatever internal representation the language implementation used.
Okay, got it. I was associating 'visual' with Visual C++ etc, not Scratch. >>>> I didn't know that was used outside of grade school.
While I do not have much experience with this kind of programming, I've
at least encountered Simulink and Grafcet.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabVIEW>
You can see here how the code looks, it is a box graphic:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabVIEW#/media/File:Labview_code_example.png> >>
Despite the name, it is not only for use in labs, we did production
code for factories.
Ah yes, definitely heard of it, although I think I've never used it
myself.
On 1/17/26 07:11, Nuno Silva wrote:
On 2026-01-15, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 2026-01-13 00:40, Nuno Silva wrote:
On 2026-01-12, rbowman wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:39:01 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
Those are diffs of text files. If you applied them to something
written
in a visual programming language the best you?d get is a diff of
whatever internal representation the language implementation used.
Okay, got it. I was associating 'visual' with Visual C++ etc, not
Scratch.
I didn't know that was used outside of grade school.
While I do not have much experience with this kind of programming, I've >>>> at least encountered Simulink and Grafcet.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabVIEW>
You can see here how the code looks, it is a box graphic:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabVIEW#/media/
File:Labview_code_example.png>
Despite the name, it is not only for use in labs, we did production
code for factories.
Ah yes, definitely heard of it, although I think I've never used it
myself.
ÿ If it can run a gas chromatograph machine it
ÿ can run a giant production reactor for making
ÿ polyethylene. LabView had a pretty good rep
ÿ and I have heard of it being used for "factory
ÿ stuff" as well.
ÿ Old old days, banks of clickey relays and analog
ÿ I/O. Then transistors. Now, software & digital.
ÿ Tomorrow, digital 'AI' and humans will be mostly
ÿ out of the loop.
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