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DiTBho:
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
but, talk is cheap. Show me the code"

( ;D )

Doctorandus_P:
Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.

jpanhalt:
@RoGeorge

Are you looking for a graphical programming language? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_programming_language ).  Flowcode is one, but there are others.

I have never used any of them.  When something is complex, I may do a flowchart, then convert that to Assembly.  Over the years, one accumulates their own libraries to make the conversion easier.

NorthGuy:

--- Quote from: RoGeorge on October 19, 2021, 02:33:00 pm ---Water-meter logger program:
- place a webcam to watch the water-meter under the sink
- at every minute take a snapshot of the water-meter
- use image recognition to identify the numbers captured in each photo
- turn the OCR digits into a number
- attach the timestamp to the reading and log that in a file

--- End quote ---

If you show this to an engineer he'll immediately tell you that you'd be better off installing your own computer-readable meter in series and use it for monitoring. This is because the engineer can think. The compiler cannot.

RoGeorge:

--- Quote from: jpanhalt on October 29, 2021, 02:31:18 pm ---Are you looking for a graphical programming language?

--- End quote ---

Not really, I consider graphical programming to be at the same level as text compilers (same for libraries, or dedicated software).  Preferably would be to exist something of a much higher abstraction level, so to get rid of managing all the details a programming language is requiring now.

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