20 May
2014
20 May
'14
3:25 p.m.
On 2014-05-20 20:59, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote:
Can programming be liberated from the plain text file?
No. I hate to be downer, but every single time I've seen a proposal for this it has failed to account for how, *exactly*, it is actually different in any meaningful way from the failed attempts at addressing this issue. I've often been quite tempted to draw up a checklist à la the infamous spam-fighting checklist for why $YOUR_IDEA_FOR_NON-TEXT-BASED_PROGRAMMING won't work -- at the very least it'd serve as a time-saver whenever this comes up :). We can all dream, but unless and until someone comes up with something *radically* different from previous attempts, it just ain't going to happen. Regards,