On Sunday, 27 January 2013 at 14:11:13 UTC, TommiT wrote:
On Sunday, 27 January 2013 at 13:42:33 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
If we require clever IDE to distinguish visually something as
basic as data semantics and callable semantics it is an
indicator language design is screwed.
Why is it an indicator of that?
Because it fails to maintain and control semantics on its own.
Notepad opens text files. There is nothing that says that the
source files of X programming language must be text files. It's
just a convention, not a law or a real limitation in designing
languages.
Text is still most efficient form of providing information.
Please call me back when something better will be invented. Then
we can speak about minimal editing environment for it.
