> No programmer I know would want to use a visual programming language at all, even with an option to fall into a full text-based programming language.

I started with C and then turned to VVVV [0] for a while (now using Python). VVVV enabled me to do a lot of media-related things, that I would have had a hard time doing otherwise. It still has a special place in my heart :)

[0] http://vvvv.org