I don't get this push towards visual programming. Visual programming works great for visual stuff (for example the Forms builder in VB6) but for general program

I don't get this push towards visual programming. Visual programming works great for visual stuff (for example the Forms builder in VB6) but for general programming, not so much. Programming is about abstract communication. If you look at human history, we see a progression from visual (cave drawings, pictograms) to text (cuneiform, alphabetic languages). If you look at law which is in the business of trying to specifying stuff in detail, the murder statutes are written in text, not with pictures of knives and guns and a big red "x".