Fabrik, an Apple visual programming toolkit from 1988, has lots of very intriguing features - including bidirectional mapping between objects, and a pervasive use of the dataflow paradigm. (!)
Interesting post on stability versus features (well, more than that: read it), referring back to an interesting attempt to quantify a number of programming languages with a scoring system [wayback] and the whole thing set off a pretty interesting set of musings at HNN, as per usual....
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