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Originally Posted by Eldarion
One has to wonder what the benefit of this software actually is. It seems like an odd mix of high and low level stuff, and C already performs syntax checking.
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It goes further than syntax checking, making it basically impossible to create syntax errors in the first place. The brief demo I saw convinced me that it's a very friendly programming environment. I'm not sure how much power, if any, is sacrificed for that friendliness. I believe that I'd end up feeling frustrated with how much time it would take to create a program, though it's possible that I'd find the test/debug process to be faster.
The main potential benefit I can see is that some people are good with "programming" but not with "coding". Giving them the ability to express code as a graphical flowchart overcomes the conceptual hurdle of writing programs as textual instructions.