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Write Windows Phone Apps, No Code Required
jfruh writes "One of the biggest challenges Microsoft has faced with its Windows Phone platform is that it's far behind in the apps race against iOS and Android. One way to close the gap is to lower the barrier to entry for new app devs, and Microsoft has done so with Windows Phone App Studio, a hosted service that lets you build applications without actually writing any code. The description of how App Studio works may leave you wondering how useful or exciting the apps created will be, but a surge of developer interest during the current beta program has surprised even Microsoft with its scope."
While in an entirely different class, LabVIEW is a graphical programming language which is quite powerful (true language / direct compiler).
Oh fuck no.
LabVIEW makes it moderately OK to control some stuff provided your control and logging and whatever system can be somewhat easily represented by a circuit diagram like construction.
In other words, it makes the easy bit of controlling stuff almost trivial to the user.
The trouble is that then the usre wants to do something a bit more complex and the simple, easy to use circuit diagram like thing turns into a mega evil rats nest of doom.
All projects lasting more than about a week end up tending towards a rats nest of doom.
What astonishes me is the amazing quantity of effort people will put in to *not* learning how to simply code it.
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