On the other hand, is it possible that the slew of visually-driven programming environments we've seen in the last 30 years or so, running the gamut from Visual Age to Rational Rose, were novel, innovative, and helpful in many ways, but ultimately just not as effective as a coder that knows what she's doing with a lightweight editor and increasingly speedy runtimes on faster and faster CPUs?
I think it is reasonable to say these environments gave some programmers the information they thought they needed. But the bare text was more useful. Text and GUI dook-hickies are both pixel-based information. What makes one superior to the other.
