Show HN: Skov – A visual programming environment
I applaud the attempt, and it does look nice, but my impression of visual programming environments is that they never scale, and it might be an inherent issue.<p>I have never met a single person that, with more than 5 minutes of time, preferes the &quot;distance computation&quot; as given in the skov example, to the simple mathematical (x-x)<i></i>2+(y-y)<i></i>2<p>Lamdu[0], which has been discussed on HN before, is more Haskellesque, and I have also not heard from anyone that it is actually useful (beyond very early Haskell teaching).<p>Personally, I&#x27;m at the other end (preferring the tersest practical language, K) but I understand the appeal of a visual programming language - it&#x27;s just that I have never seen an example that delivers.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lamdu.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lamdu.org&#x2F;</a>