newRPL - Ideas for "graphical" programming of math problems

[mfleming]

A great deal of research was done on Visual Programming in the 70's and 80's. There are collections of papers from conferences and journal special issues you could turn to for ideas. However I think the main conclusion was that visual representation worked best for specialized problem domains and grew cumbersome as the application of visualization was generalized. Not to sound discouraging but you may want to narrow the domain to matrix problems, physics, engineering, etc. I spent two years studying the field in the early 90's as a possible dissertation subject but gave up. If VP was easy then you could just copy someone else's solution

~Mark