On Sunday, 27 January 2013 at 15:09:10 UTC, TommiT wrote:
On Sunday, 27 January 2013 at 14:14:18 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
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.
Okay, here's what I invented in 5 minutes that would be better
than plain text:
* Arguments to a function call would go, instead of inside
parentheses, inside a box with a solid, black border and some
nice and unique background color.
* Template arguments would go in a box with a hatched border
line and a different background color.
* Blocks are, instead of surrounded by braces, indicated by
this thing that looks like a tall, black, thin, right-opening
square bracket that spans the whole block and sits directly to
the left of the left-most characters of the statements inside
the block.
* Instead of having '*' indicate both "multiply" and
"dereference", invent and use a new symbol that means
"dereference". The same goes for all symbols, like '&', '!',
'~', '@', that don't have a universally defined meaning that
corresponds to its meaning in language X.
In order to input those "things that are not symbols found on
your keyboard", you'd either need to learn keyboard shortcuts
by heart, or use a custom keyboard, which is what tv and movie
editors have done for 20 years with their Avid keyboards. Most
other creative jobs require custom tools for performing the
craft, why not programming?
And how it is any better? Also D sources are unicode, so last two
are possible just now and you need no special keyboard for it.
Still the same good old text.
