On 01/27/13 15:11, TommiT wrote: > 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. Therefore you can't assume that an X source file can be > opened and read with notepad. Someone might design a language that wouldn't > rely on those symbols that just happen to be found on keyboards, but instead, > relied more on text formatting and colors.
Except we're not talking about such hypothetical language, but one where text *is* the natural form for source code. It also happens to be called "D", which means that it will be universally expected to have certain properties. Something can be a great idea in one context, while being an extremely bad one in another. artur
