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		batista on Sept 9, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Visual Programming and Why It Sucks >Yes, most of them are simple (though there are some impressively complex projects on there). So what? So you just repeated the complain of the author (that it only works for simple stuff), and yet you act like you challenged it.

Turing_Machine on Sept 9, 2012 [–]

I'm pointing out that the author's claim that "very little software is actually that simple" is bogus. Which it is.

I would bet that in terms of sheer number of procedures, the majority of software written today consists of spreadsheet and word processor macros.

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