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That certainly seems to be the case, but I'm not sure that it was the intention.



Well, having worked with various 4GLs that were meant to improve productivity and produce re-usable code, ones that are being used merely add more accidental complexity rather than reduce it.

And a diagram (in such a 4GL) does not help when it has hundreds of decision nodes and the end-user (read: a human being) visual system can only deal with at most 10 nodes.

It is also very amusing when the executives finally realize how unnecessarily complex their order processing chain is.




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