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Re:How Flow-Based Programming Could Save The Sanity Of Web D... by pekk on Friday August 23, 2013 @02:42PM (#6265487)
> this is procedural programming straight out of my old, old COBOL books. Batch processing - read some files, process the data, output it.

Modularizing systems into separate, standardized units has a tendency to look like this (or like shell scripting). Is this a huge problem?

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Re:How Flow-Based Programming Could Save The Sanity Of Web D... by seanmcdirmid on Friday August 23, 2013 @11:57PM (#6267550)
Not at all. The point is that the visual code doesn't differ much from the textual code in terms of architecture and complexity.
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