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by jrumbut 3596 days ago
So, so many people do things the hard and reliable way, or don't do them at all and sacrifice some desired feature, because they don't recognize a well understood computer science problem lurking underneath a business problem or a UI implementation.

I'm not saying that's what anyone in this discussion is doing, just that I see it everywhere (and have done it myself). 1000s of lines of incomprehensible code because no one realized that this drag and drop flow chart creation interface can be understood as a graph.