I gotta agree with you there. I think visual programming environments can be very useful in certain limited domains where you're mostly just "wiring" up a set

I gotta agree with you there. I think visual programming environments can be very useful in certain limited domains where you're mostly just "wiring" up a set of pre-existing components into a fairly small "script". Apple Automator in OSX is IMHO a great example of this. But the idea of building any reasonably large program in a visual environment is fundamentally unworkable.