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Re:Bret Victor: Learnable Programming (2012) by RodgerTheGreat on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @01:09PM (#27823437)
The classic "hello world" for visual programming languages tends to be a Fahrenheit to Celsius converter. Not only is this example a very simple calculation, it happens to be a reversible, total function, which can often (unintentionally?) imply a degree of flexibility and interactivity which does not generalize to stateful or non-reversible programs.

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