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

[Dave Angel]

On 06/14/2013 05:43 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:
> 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 :-)
>


How about the program in about 1988 called "The Last One" ?  It was 
supposed to be the last program you'd ever have to buy.


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DaveA