Visual programming for dataflows - as in a series of mapreduce jobs on Hadoop - is an excellent case for this kind of programming. If you haven't read it, chec

Visual programming for dataflows - as in a series of mapreduce jobs on Hadoop - is an excellent case for this kind of programming. If you haven't read it, check out this paper on PigPen from Yahoo Research: http://bit.ly/v6eqwq http://bit.ly/v6eqwq