Ray Dillinger  <bear@sonic.net> wrote:
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| Similarly, graphical languages do not reduce the complexity
| or organization of thought required to program; they only
| show it in a way that makes it less obvious.
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Heh-heh! Also see the fine rant by Edward Tufte[1] against PowerPoint:

    <URL:http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2.html>
    "PowerPoint Is Evil"
    Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely.

See also:

    <URL:http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint>
    <URL:http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/23.07.html#subj2>
    <URL:http://www.ronscheer.com/html/readingroom25.html>
    <URL:http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?
	 usca_p=t&msg_id=0000Rs&topic_id=1&topic=Ask%20E%2eT%2e>
    <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPoint> ["Cultural Effects" section]


-Rob

[1] Author of the classic text "The Visual Display of Quantitative
    Information".

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