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Re:To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as re... by Frptwenty on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @03:27AM (#25440279)
Visual low-code programming sounds good until you try to express actually non-trivial stuff in it, and you start appreciating text-based flow control again.
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Re:To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as re... by ahartmetz on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @07:00AM (#25441584)
My take is that since code and data are highly dimensional "ideas" living in a one-dimensional address space, the two dimensions of visual programming that don't match any of the two are more of a distraction.
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