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Visual programming works for DSLs ( yahoo pipes , sound synthesis , gui ... ) . It doesn't really work for general purpose programming.

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That's just because you lack the tools to efficiently create new DSLs

No its because programming involves more than just piping a few command together. Otherwise everything would be written in bash with a few pipes (or a visual equivalent).

What about mathworks/simulink?

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