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[[Good point. Does it invalidate my comments on visual programming? I don't think so; I think what it does is appropriately introduce a certain amount of discipline early in the process. "Design the data structures first..." has been a theme of this blog for the past couple weeks and it would certainly need to be applied to the problem of visual programming. ]{style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"}]{style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"}