&gt; In fact it makes a lot of simple tasks hard because something trivial like a loop takes an unexpectedly distracting amount of pointing, clicking, typing, dragging, and joining.<p>That&#x27;s because you don&#x27;t create loops or if-statements in graphical programming languages, in the same way that you don&#x27;t create loops or conditionals in functional programming; you use map, filter, etc.