No code Programming language

Check out limnor.com. Limnor is a no code programming language. I like it a lot. Do you guys think it is going to survive for long???

 

I always find it takes longer to learn how to use the software with things like this than it does to learn how to write the code for a particular program.

 

It looks nice, but I don't think it will be used a lot.
It might be easy to program small "hello world" programs with it, but I doubt it can be used to create fast, secure and complex applications.

Microsoft tried a while ago with VB and is trying again with C# but even they need a certain amount of code to create good, flexible commercial applications.

FFMG

 

But it is code, just in a different way

Different people think differently. It may find a niche in the designer community. Programmers will continue to do what they've always done.

 

looks like a simplified version of VB3.0,

 

I don't think it will be used a lot

 

It's windows-only. That kills my interest in it.

 

I agree with dave487, its easier just to learn the language and survive that way. Its probably more powerful if you know the language as well.

 

nagh, programming is sort of like translating between human thinking and machine thinking, and the two are very different

u can try to bridge the 2 together using high level languages such as java


anyways as someone pointed out microsoft tried making language for non programmers Visual Basic what happened? its buggy unsecure and crap so microsoft had to scrap it

designers will be designers, programmers will be programmers

 

How can a programinglanguage without code work?

 

I don't know anything about limnor. But, off the top of my head, here's one way to write a "no code" programming language (sort of). Actually, I think this is pretty much the way VB worked.

Start with a bunch of controls, with lots of properties to customize their behaviour. Add a pretty GUI for dragging/dropping them around on a page. Tie it all together with a runtime library that does all the actual work.

In VB, for the most part, programmers had to write code to, for example, handle button click events. Looks like limnor has gotten around that by creating a GUI for setting up program flow and event handling.

Then make it extensible by the people who write code, and you have it.

The only problem I have with stuff like this is that it's usually impossible to do things the language designers didn't plan on in advance.

 

Definitely more powerful.

But a RAD or GUI designer can speed things up immensely. Learning to use a complex one in the first place might take longer than just learning a given programming language.

But, in the long-term, assuming it's a decent IDE and doesn't interfere with writing code when you actually need it, you can get huge productivity gains from it.

 

The first AOHell used Whalex scripting then moved on to VB (I especially loved Sendkeys )

 

IMHO it is still code, it is just a graphical programming language rather than a text based one. It may well suit some people - and so they will prefer to use it.

 

From the site:

with a bunch of end user stuff listed after it.

That is not functional programming - this is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming

That said it seems to be well thought out and not very expensive. Might be useful for people who don't want to learn to program and want to make some simple programs.