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Re:Visual Programming Doesn’t Suck by SonOfThePlower on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @09:02AM (#19026300)
Used to work with Rational Rhapsody. Big project with a lot of fancy state charts - that was nightmare. Visual programming does suck (unless it's Simulink).
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Re:Visual Programming Doesn’t Suck by humanrebar on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @09:35AM (#19026570)
Same.

Some of what the author advocates for was incorporated in Rhapsody and other tools (LabView) a decade ago or more.

The response to critics is basically:

> ...tooling they’re accustomed to can’t be used properly.

I think that understates the pain of peer reviewing WSYWIG diagram changes (the closed diamond is now an open circle!) that affect production software.

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