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