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Re:Folk wisdom on visual programming by analog31 on Friday July 02, 2021 @11:36PM (#27719166)
>>> I’m not sure that a few months is enough to understand the true pros and cons of a language.

No doubt. My problems were mainly with the ergonomics of the editing environment, not the language. And I had problems with other graphical software as well, including games.

Re:Folk wisdom on visual programming by bmitc on Saturday July 03, 2021 @12:37PM (#27722846)
Yea, that’s fair. I only meant to point out that the LabVIEW paradigm is powerful once you really get into it.

I can totally understand the ergonomics issue. I think that automatic layout is the way to go to reduce pixel-perfect manual layout and thus strain from heavy mouse usage.