What Are the Advantages and Uses
of Visual Programming?
A visual programming language, sometimes
called a fifth-generation language, provides a
visual or graphical interface, called a visual
programming environment (VPE), for creating
source code. Visual programming languages often
are used in a RAD environment. RAD (rapid
application development) allows programmers to
implement a program in segments and use
prebuilt components, thus simplifying program
development. Visual programming languages
include Visual Basic .NET 2003, Visual C++
.NET 2003, Visual C# .NET 2003, Delphi, and
PowerBuilder .