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> Beyond some specific use cases, they don't seem to scale cognitively. The tangle of connections is a problem.

This just isn't true. I've actually built things in visual languages. It just requires the same organization as text-based languages. One could write an entire text-based program in a single file in a single function, which would be a similar mess. In fact, the benefit or feature of visual languages is that they showcase poor code more readily than text-based code.

parent bmitc 2 years ago

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