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Re:Funciton – A graphical programming language by coldtea on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @01:45PM (#14499279)
You seem to be conflating visual programming languages/environments with pictography.

They are not about that.

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Re:Funciton – A graphical programming language by mannykannot on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @03:54PM (#14500698)
I am suggesting that your concept of a visual language is just an enhanced presentation of one that is fundamentally textual.
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Re:Funciton – A graphical programming language by coldtea on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @02:51AM (#14504202)
And I'm suggesting the keyword is "enhanced".

Movies are fundamentally photography too.

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Re:Funciton – A graphical programming language by mannykannot on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @06:57AM (#14505124)
The fact that you have to stretch for that analogy, rather than name a visual language that offers more than just an incremental improvement to the process of reading text, suggests that the alleged power of visual programming is mostly hypothetical at this point.
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Re:Funciton – A graphical programming language by coldtea on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @01:37PM (#14508282)
Confirmation bias much?
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Re:Funciton – A graphical programming language by mannykannot on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @02:19PM (#14508641)
I see that you have given up on any attempt at a factual argument.
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