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I think Visual programming is OK when your control flow is linear, and doesn't have too many branches. However, when your control flow contains primitives like

I think Visual programming is OK when your control flow is linear, and doesn't have too many branches. However, when your control flow contains primitives like break/continue/try-catch, it can get pretty messy very quickly.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago
On the other hand, I think visual programming is much better suited to tasks where your dataflow is multidimensional. For instance, linear pipelines are simple to construct and read in commandline form, but try reading a multidimensional dataflow with commandline.
adrianN 8y ago
When your control flow is linear you don't really gain much over a linear textual representation, do you?