Did I say it was the pinnacle? GGP post suggested that visual programming was vaporware. Perhaps for general purpose programming it is, but visual programming itself is not vaporware.
Visual programming has small niches where it fits well. GUI building for example. Actually the query builder in MS Access wasn't so bad, but it was a choice of learning that or remembering "proper" SQL when I used it. Proper SQL seemed more useful.
Likewise with functional programming. I uses small bits here and there when it is appropriate to write cleaner code. I would struggle to build anything of any size using FP.
