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adamb_
on June 5, 2017
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Ask HN: Why does visual programming suck?
At the end of the day, programming is symbol manulation, and nothing beats representing symbols like text.
DonaldFisk
on June 6, 2017
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No mainstream programming language even supports symbols as a data type. They process numbers and strings of characters.
Symbol manipulation is done well only by Lisp and its variants.
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Javascript (with ECMAScript 6) supports symbols as a datatype.
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