It's a decent paradigm for anything that has to do with signal processing. It mirrors almost exactly how you would do it in real life. I.e. connecting cables to

It's a decent paradigm for anything that has to do with signal processing. It mirrors almost exactly how you would do it in real life. I.e. connecting cables to boxes which do a filter or an amplifier or an oscillator or whatnot. The best examples are systems like Labview, Max/MSP and Quartz Composer.