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by kmiroslav 3645 days ago
> Why are programs even structured as sequential lines?

Same reasons books are structured as sequential lines: easier to read for humans.

And the reason why source code is still heavily text based and why introducing more WYSIWIG to it would be disastrous is that all the peripheral tooling would become a nightmare (diffs, code reviews, source control, etc...).