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Originally Posted by Chris Hibner
Even for PC programming we're starting to see more graphical programming tools where you draw your windows and drag and drop menus and interface controls, then simply define the behavior of the interfaces and menus.
I don't know if we'll ever completely move away from text-based code (and in some cases, I think text based code is the most efficient method), but it would surprise me if software development was primarily text based 10 years from now.
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Underlying those little widget-y, icon-y things with various kinds of lines crisscrossing between them is text based code (or perhaps more accurately, the compiled binary representation of text based code).
Yes, the ubiquity of text based programming is loosing ground to 'software through icon connection', but we should not fool ourselves into thinking it's going away.
Its replacement hasn't arrived yet.