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Graphical representations are useful for representing spatial relationships because then you can take advantage of the inverse-GPU in the human visual cortex to do a lot of computation for you. But software doesn't have spatial relationships because it doesn't exist in space. So trying to represent software concepts graphically is generally doomed to fail. There are a few exceptions, like code indentation, but there's a reason that flowcharts aren't used much any more.



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