Clarifying your ideas

I love the Webcomic xkcd by Randall Munroe... Geek humor for sure, but often very insightful...

"You'll never find a programming language that frees you from the need to clarify your ideas"

Amen to that.

Programming is the act of transforming requirements into something that a computer can execute... but before those requirements can be transformed they'd better be clear. You might think that this would be obvious, but you'd be wrong... In way too many cases the "idea" that spawned the software either wasn't clarified or it wasn't communicated clearly.

Programming languages - both textual and graphical - won't substitute for an idea that hasn't been clarified. But "better" programming languages can help to insure that the idea has been implemented properly (or at least make it clear what was actually built).