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ghurtado on June 4, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Why does visual programming suck?

If that was a painting then surely I would have some remote idea of what it represents. As it is, I (and many others) don't.

threatofrain on June 5, 2017 | [–]

Maybe he's making a joke about how Chinese characters evolved from more pictorial-like elements, and are in a sense abstractions over pictures.

BenjiWiebe on June 4, 2017 | [–]

Unless it was modern art, of course.

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