[Tutor] What are these two string-formatting styles called?

[Alan Gauld]

On 14/06/13 19:34, Jim Mooney wrote:

> I'm probably going to hear that's already been done, too ;')

Not in 3D to my knowledge but visual programming for sure.
One example was ObjectVision from Borland on the PC. It lacked a loop 
construct because it was event driven but otherwise was a complete 
visual programming tool. I actually built a couple of business apps 
using it in the early 90's. There's a YouTube video showing the demos 
that came with it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz37j3fOAc8

Another one, currently popular on the RaspberryPi micro computer is Scratch:

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tip_bar=getStarted

And on an industrial scale there are several tools that attempt to turn 
UML/SDL design  diagrams into executable code, with varying degrees of 
success.

There's nothing new under the sun :-)

-- 
Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/