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Re:Visual Programming Doesn’t Suck by ghostwriter on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @09:24AM (#19026470)
> Maybe we should spend a few thousand years coming up with a compact, information-dense manner of expressing thoughts.

This is called "mathematical notation".

Re:Visual Programming Doesn’t Suck by Retra on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @10:40AM (#19027170)
It's called "writing", and mathematical notation is just a subset of that.
Re:Visual Programming Doesn’t Suck by lenticular on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @09:40AM (#19026622)
I wonder if something along the lines of commutative diagrams would be ideal.