Graphical Programming is Dead
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The document discusses the evolution and current state of graphical design tools and programming, emphasizing their success in niche areas such as education and certain technical fields. It highlights the historical reasons for using graphical interfaces in electronics, as well as the limitations such as vendor dependency and challenges in debugging. Overall, it suggests a shift from designing tools to focusing on graphical viewers in programming.
Graphical Programming is Dead
- 1. Graphical Design Tools are dead. long live graphical viewers Dr. Ir. Philippe Faes
- 2. Types of Graphical Programming ● Data-flow based ● One-dimensional ● Behavioral (state-machines) ● Hybrid
- 5. Behavioral
- 6. Niches Graphical programming is successful in niches: ● educational and non-programmer ● flow-based: audio, video, measurement data ● formal behavior (FSM) ● graphical design (GUI, games, ...) ● and some domain specific sub-niches
- 7. Why graphical entry for electronics? ● historical ● inspection / navigation ● documentation
- 8. Historical
- 9. Inspection
- 10. Documentation
- 11. Disadvantages of graphical ● lack of standard data format ○ vendor dependent ● difficult to compare two versions ● captures limited complexity ● debugging can be harder ○ tool flow works on generated HDL code
- 14. Round-trip flow