is VB a VL?

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3 total messages Started by sherif el kassas Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:19

#54

Author: sherif el kassas
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:19

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Hi all,
Just wanted to ask:
  Is Visual BASIC a visual programming language?

Thanks,
Sherif

PS No flames intended.
PPS The following is a definition of VLs based on [Myers, 1989].
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A visual language is a language that allows its users to
specify their constructs in two or more dimensions.
Examples of such languages include: flowcharts and dataflow
diagrams.

@incollection{Mye,
 author = "Myers, B. A.",
 title = "The State of the Art in Visual Programming and Program Visualization",
 editor = "Kilgour, A. and Earnshaw, R.",
 Booktitle = "Graphics Tools for Software Engineers",
 publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
 year = "1989"
}
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Sherif El-Kassas, elkassas@eb.ele.tue.nl         .       :.
Digital Systems Group (EB), EH 11.29       \_____o__/ __________
Eindhoven University of Technology,               .. /
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Re: is VB a VL?

#56

Author: James A Landay
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:47

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Please, describe visual BASIC for us.  Even if it turns out to be a
visual language (which it probably is by Brad's definition), I am
not sure this is the appropriate place to ask for technical help
concerning visual BASIC.

In article <1828@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl> elkassas@ebs.eb.ele.tue.nl (sherif el kassas) writes:
>Hi all,
>Just wanted to ask:
>  Is Visual BASIC a visual programming language?
>
>Thanks,
>Sherif
>
>PS No flames intended.
>PPS The following is a definition of VLs based on [Myers, 1989].
>-----------------------------------------------------------
>A visual language is a language that allows its users to
>specify their constructs in two or more dimensions.
>Examples of such languages include: flowcharts and dataflow
>diagrams.
>
>@incollection{Mye,
> author = "Myers, B. A.",
> title = "The State of the Art in Visual Programming and Program Visualization",
> editor = "Kilgour, A. and Earnshaw, R.",
> Booktitle = "Graphics Tools for Software Engineers",
> publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
> year = "1989"
>}
>-----------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>Sherif El-Kassas, elkassas@eb.ele.tue.nl         .       :.
>Digital Systems Group (EB), EH 11.29       \_____o__/ __________
>Eindhoven University of Technology,               .. /
>5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands.                 /


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James A. Landay
landay@cs.cmu.edu

Re: is VB a VL?

#57

Author: Ian Staples
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 07:05

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In article <C19wF0.BvA.2@cs.cmu.edu> landay+@cs.cmu.edu (James A Landay) writes:
>
>Please, describe visual BASIC for us.  Even if it turns out to be a
>visual language (which it probably is by Brad's definition), I am
>not sure this is the appropriate place to ask for technical help
>concerning visual BASIC.
>
I agree.  The places where one often finds stuff on VB are alt.lang.basic
and in the ms-windows groups.  I suspect VB is only "visual" in the sense
that it makes it easy to have all the nice windows, buttons, scroll-bars
etc. of Windows itself in your own Basic programs.


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