The fundamental problem with visual programming methods as opposed to linguistic methods is that abstraction doesn't work as well. I agree that we'll get glue

The fundamental problem with visual programming methods as opposed to linguistic methods is that abstraction doesn't work as well. I agree that we'll get glue programmers, who just stick modules together. We already do: they are those programmers who use APIs. i.e. all of us to some extent. So far, it's still programming.