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Le Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:43:22 +0100, Dmitry A. Kazakov  =

<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a =C3=A9crit:
> Yes, I think the point is important. There is another example of this.=

> Visual X-Tools is the worst ever IDE made, for this reason.
>
> (For those lucky, who never heard about it, X-tools render the source =
 =

> code
> in a way that visualize the program control structure. E.g. then-part =
of  =

> an
> if-statement on the left and the else-part of the right, a sort of  =

> textual
> block-diagrams.)

This sort of representation could be relevant (think about UML diagrams)=
  =

for some usages. The error is to display the real source in such a way. =
 =

This graphical representation is good for outlines, and to be useful,  =

should be able to make a kind of excerpts of the source.

There are also the visual paradigms used for beginners. This work nice, =
 =

that is not so bad, just that only works fine on small things. Otherwise=
,  =

the amount of area required to represent a part of a source being far  =

above what is required to represent the same with text, this does not he=
lp  =

readability (required when things become larger).

May be the kind of product you mentioned targets bad decisioners ? (at  =

least people with a bad representation of what the real things are).

-- =

Si les chats miaulent et font autant de vocalises bizarres, c=E2=80=99es=
t pas pour  =

les chiens.

=E2=80=9CI am fluent in ASCII=E2=80=9D [Warren 2010]