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Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> wrote:
>.
> People are really determined to invent all kind of necessary shit, as
> long as it saves them from writing code. And this is what bothers me.

Software production based on source text still seems far from proper
engineering in many places. For any product P, “why does it not work?” may
be met with a shrug... Programmers reinvent wheels. Managers cannot see
what programmers do. But if there is a presentable pictogram of a software
product, it creates a different idea. 

So, things to do to prove that source text is better than pictures is to
(a) be able to answer, from source, questions satisfactorily and (b)
extract, from source, a pictorial representation with which people can
work.