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Excellent work @ChrisKnott, respect for one who ships stuff!

Either Chris or any of the Lispers hanging around here, can they throw deeper insight at the following question/assertion: Isn't what Brett Victor proposing 'visual programming' on top of a live REPL?

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Absolutely not. He states his vision very clearly in Learnable Programming, especially near the end: http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/

> Programming has to work like this. Programmers must be able to read the vocabulary, follow the flow, and see the state. Programmers have to create by reacting and create by abstracting. Assume that these are requirements. Given these requirements, how do we redesign programming?