A little VP history
Sketchpad [Sutherland 63]
- A simple constraint-based graphics system
- Followup work by W. Sutherland
- Visual creation, debugging, execution of dataflow diagrams
Pygmalion [D.Smith 75]
- Attempt to allow programming that corresponded to the creative thought processes
- Icon-based programming paradigm
- Essentially “programming-by-example” to generate text programs