[gisborne]

Most of the problems described in other posts concern trying to convert text programming paradigms into a visual representation.

Let me suggest two ways visual programming might be a big part of the future:

1. New paradigms, such as constraint based programming, might well lend themselves better to a visual presentation; and 2. VR. Visual programming is indeed much less visually dense than text, but if you start over with the assumption you’re doing it in VR, that suddenly is if anything a virtue.

Imagine something that was part Excel, part Access, with visual, animated 3D representations of other major programming abstractions also, and you start to see that VP might really be the future.