Visual programming
People write programs almost solely using text
Rich I/O devices were rare
Technologies (e.g., parsing) were developed to support textual input
�A picture is worth 1000 words�
�Would we not be more productive and would the power of modern computers not be accessible to a wider range of people if we were able to instruct a computer by simply drawing for it the images we see in our mind's eye when we consider the solutions to particular problems?� �M. Boshernitsan