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All of these new features are impossible in the visual programming paradigm.

This is false. The logic is simple to see why. Text is limited to alpha numeric characters restricted in a format that’s from left to right lines. It’s a very arbitrarily specific way to represent a “program”

In fact text is in itself a visual program. It’s one set of arbitrary rules as outlined above on how to represent a concept visually.

Thus there are definitely ways to represent a program with different rules with more dimensions and much less restrictions.

I don’t know how people get in there heads that in visual programming things are “impossible.” Like it’s not even a subjective thing, it’s definitively wrong.

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