> In fact it makes a lot of simple tasks hard because something trivial like a loop takes an unexpectedly distracting amount of pointing, clicking, typing, drag

> In fact it makes a lot of simple tasks hard because something trivial like a loop takes an unexpectedly distracting amount of pointing, clicking, typing, dragging, and joining. That's because you don't create loops or if-statements in graphical programming languages, in the same way that you don't create loops or conditionals in functional programming; you use map, filter, etc.