Discussion Question: Why has Visual Programming Languages never taken off?

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Published on 2010-03-16T08:15:49Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 8:16 UTC
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Is there a good analysis of why visual programming languages still haven't taken off? We're still coding these days 'linearly' in a 80x25 text window; while the concepts we represent (data structures, algorithms) seem like they can be more intuitively represented visually.

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