For many people it's easier to understand complex relationships when they're represented in visual form. However, to represent logic in visual form becomes quit

For many people it's easier to understand complex relationships when they're represented in visual form. However, to represent logic in visual form becomes quite damn painful because when the complexity grows, so does the visual area occupied. When you actually have cross-referencing of objects of type X which inherit from Y and have a is-a relationship with Z which is a friend of K it really, really becomes a one huge mess. While I could imagine such a system being used for very trivial programming tasks by "non-programmers", I find it very utopistic to even imagine that something as complex as even a primitive compiler could be writ.. described in such form with ease. The actual hard part is not to code it out(as opposed to sketch it out visually) but to manage the complexity by designing it in such a way that it makes sense and works as intended. I really don't see how visual programming would be helpful with the actual act of designing or even understanding a complex software system with different types, constructs, patterns and their permutations. Perhaps it's just lack of imagination, I sure hope so.