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> The analogous solution to "a simple script" is "a simple graph", i.e., abstraction.

Right and abstraction is exactly what doesn't work well with visual languages.

With a script you can do a for loop from 1 to 3000. With 3000 components connected to one node in a visual language there is not obvious facility to handle it. You can think of group functions in components/namespaces/folder maybe. Or say generate implicit connections where they are not really drawn on the screen.



What visual language are you using? All of them that I’ve used have for-loops, too.


A proprietary one. A for loop to create connections between nodes? How would that work? It would have to be a self-modifying connection graph.




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