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  • Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over

    From Nuno Silva@nunojsilva@invalid.invalid to comp.os.linux.misc on Sat Jan 17 12:11:27 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 2026-01-15, Carlos E.R. wrote:

    On 2026-01-13 00:40, Nuno Silva wrote:
    On 2026-01-12, rbowman wrote:

    On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:39:01 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

    Those are diffs of text files. If you applied them to something written >>>> in a visual programming language the best you’d get is a diff of
    whatever internal representation the language implementation used.

    Okay, got it. I was associating 'visual' with Visual C++ etc, not Scratch. >>> I didn't know that was used outside of grade school.

    While I do not have much experience with this kind of programming, I've
    at least encountered Simulink and Grafcet.


    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabVIEW>

    You can see here how the code looks, it is a box graphic:

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabVIEW#/media/File:Labview_code_example.png>


    Despite the name, it is not only for use in labs, we did production
    code for factories.

    Ah yes, definitely heard of it, although I think I've never used it
    myself.
    --
    Nuno Silva
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  • From c186282@c186282@nnada.net to comp.os.linux.misc on Sat Jan 17 19:49:39 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 1/17/26 07:11, Nuno Silva wrote:
    On 2026-01-15, Carlos E.R. wrote:

    On 2026-01-13 00:40, Nuno Silva wrote:
    On 2026-01-12, rbowman wrote:

    On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:39:01 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

    Those are diffs of text files. If you applied them to something written >>>>> in a visual programming language the best you’d get is a diff of
    whatever internal representation the language implementation used.

    Okay, got it. I was associating 'visual' with Visual C++ etc, not Scratch. >>>> I didn't know that was used outside of grade school.

    While I do not have much experience with this kind of programming, I've
    at least encountered Simulink and Grafcet.


    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabVIEW>

    You can see here how the code looks, it is a box graphic:

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabVIEW#/media/File:Labview_code_example.png> >>

    Despite the name, it is not only for use in labs, we did production
    code for factories.

    Ah yes, definitely heard of it, although I think I've never used it
    myself.

    If it can run a gas chromatograph machine it
    can run a giant production reactor for making
    polyethylene. LabView had a pretty good rep
    and I have heard of it being used for "factory
    stuff" as well.

    Old old days, banks of clickey relays and analog
    I/O. Then transistors. Now, software & digital.
    Tomorrow, digital 'AI' and humans will be mostly
    out of the loop.

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  • From Carlos E.R.@robin_listas@es.invalid to comp.os.linux.misc on Sun Jan 18 13:01:41 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 2026-01-18 01:49, c186282 wrote:
    On 1/17/26 07:11, Nuno Silva wrote:
    On 2026-01-15, Carlos E.R. wrote:

    On 2026-01-13 00:40, Nuno Silva wrote:
    On 2026-01-12, rbowman wrote:

    On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:39:01 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

    Those are diffs of text files. If you applied them to something
    written
    in a visual programming language the best you’d get is a diff of >>>>>> whatever internal representation the language implementation used.

    Okay, got it. I was associating 'visual' with Visual C++ etc, not
    Scratch.
    I didn't know that was used outside of grade school.

    While I do not have much experience with this kind of programming, I've >>>> at least encountered Simulink and Grafcet.


    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabVIEW>

    You can see here how the code looks, it is a box graphic:

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabVIEW#/media/
    File:Labview_code_example.png>


    Despite the name, it is not only for use in labs, we did production
    code for factories.

    Ah yes, definitely heard of it, although I think I've never used it
    myself.

      If it can run a gas chromatograph machine it
      can run a giant production reactor for making
      polyethylene. LabView had a pretty good rep
      and I have heard of it being used for "factory
      stuff" as well.

      Old old days, banks of clickey relays and analog
      I/O. Then transistors. Now, software & digital.
      Tomorrow, digital 'AI' and humans will be mostly
      out of the loop.

    The hurdle was that we were using Windows 95, and it could crash.
    --
    Cheers, Carlos.
    ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;
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