From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 23:40:12 +0000, Nuno Silva wrote:   
      
   > On 2026-01-12, rbowman wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:39:01 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Those are diffs of text files. If you applied them to something   
   >>> written in a visual programming language the best you’d get is a diff   
   >>> of whatever internal representation the language implementation used.   
   >>   
   >> Okay, got it. I was associating 'visual' with Visual C++ etc, not   
   >> Scratch.   
   >> I didn't know that was used outside of grade school.   
   >   
   > While I do not have much experience with this kind of programming, I've   
   > at least encountered Simulink and Grafcet.   
      
   I repress really well. A few years ago I was tasked with evaluating Talend   
   Open Studio, a graphical ETL tool where you dragged stuff around,   
   connected it, and it was supposed to generate Java code. It sucked   
   mightily. That was the general opinion, not mine alone. They were bought   
   by Qlik and the Open Studio product was dropped.   
      
   The dream in the ETL and BI world is pointy haired bosses can do something   
   with big data without talking to those snotty programmers.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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