> These tools are great for letting someone build something they don't understand Exactly, how can the same concept re-appear in all sorts of forms in this ind

> These tools are great for letting someone build something they don't understand Exactly, how can the same concept re-appear in all sorts of forms in this industry? Another thing I though of was Mule, which I used a few years ago (it's hopefully better now). A horrid mess of an Eclipse-plugin that drew boxes with arrows between them, where "standard plugins" etc. could be plugged in to transform data and move it from here to there. The problem Mule solved (in our case) was comical, the complexity of the solution was also comical, or tragic; or maybe it was both.