I have seen various promises of visual programming over the years (Java beans was going t be the next big thing when I learned). The fact is it gains you very l

I have seen various promises of visual programming over the years (Java beans was going t be the next big thing when I learned). The fact is it gains you very little (in my opinion). The only thing that it solves is syntax, and that's actually a relatively easy thing when it comes to programming. MS Access had an OK visual query builder, but by the time you needed to anything moderately advanced it was as easy to switch to text SQL (plus text SQL is a more standard way of doing things).