Top-down, left-right flow in reading and writing text is an under-appreciated order. We learn it from a very young age and use it everyday in writing English.

Top-down, left-right flow in reading and writing text is an under-appreciated order. We learn it from a very young age and use it everyday in writing English. Replacing our natural order to process language with a visual scripting environment doesn't really work. The flow control format needs to match the coding requirement, otherwise the default written text style is much better. The best visual editors I've seen amplify the top-down, left-right structure and sometimes are not saved even then. Organising ideas into a communicable stack of information has always been the realm of language. The move from pictographs to alphabets was a technology that allowed masses of people to be literate and spread the associated language far and wide, spreading the host civilization with it. Going back to pictographs for coding.. is a deep challenge.