I think that exploring alternative ways of creating programs is an excellent worthwhile activity. But while it might "open up" programming as discipline for _so

I think that exploring alternative ways of creating programs is an excellent worthwhile activity. But while it might "open up" programming as discipline for _some_ people that would otherwise not do it, it doesn't follow that "everyone" will be able to program. LabVIEW is an example of a visual programming language that has been around for 20+ years. It is very popular in manufacturing test and laboratory applications. It was supposed to make certain kinds of programming accessible to non-programmers. Did it do that? To some extent, yes. However to do anything even remotely large or complex with it you're still stuck with the same old problems of software development that the general public sucks at. The best LabVIEW "programmers" _are_ "programmers".