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by erock 4624 days ago
I've spent the past year "working" within graphical programming, and I have to say it is a slow form of torture.

I have been "writing" IVR applications for a call center. The interface is far from intuitive, and it is jsut too easy to miss what is actually going on. The loops and if statements are all there, but you have to click through on the item to actually see what is going on.

Forget trying to find an easy way to locate where something is. at least in my case (VXML) I was forced to use grep to at least give me an idea of where to look, then spend 10x the amount of time it would take in plain ol code to find where to make the change.

ugh.

give me ASCII code any day