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Re:Ask HN: Why does visual programming suck? by GuiA on Sunday June 04, 2017 @05:52PM (#14483758)
请你到超市去买两瓶酒。如果你见Joe，告诉他我们明天六点钟参加派对在我的家。

Here, that was quite fast to paint. Would have been even faster with a proper brush instead of a keyboard :p

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Re:Ask HN: Why does visual programming suck? by ghurtado on Sunday June 04, 2017 @06:25PM (#14483976)
If that was a painting then surely I would have some remote idea of what it represents. As it is, I (and many others) don't.
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Re:Ask HN: Why does visual programming suck? by threatofrain on Sunday June 04, 2017 @08:08PM (#14484437)
Maybe he's making a joke about how Chinese characters evolved from more pictorial-like elements, and are in a sense abstractions over pictures.
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Re:Ask HN: Why does visual programming suck? by BenjiWiebe on Sunday June 04, 2017 @07:34PM (#14484323)
Unless it was modern art, of course.
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