On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:02 PM, BGB <[email protected]> wrote: > but, what would be the gain?... the major issue with most possible graphical > representations, is that they are far less compact. hence, the common use of > graphical presentations to represent a small amount in information in a > "compelling" way (say, a bar-chart or line-graph which represents only a > small number of data-points).
I too have been thinking that the textual representation has to go. Not to replace it with fancy icons but mainly to remove the limits imposed by parsing, but also to make graphical representations available, for example tables is a language construct I usually miss, arrays of arrays of objects just doesn't cut it. By parsing limits I mean the fact that the language grammar usually has to be more verbose than is required by a human to resolve ambiguity and other issues. This is mainly a problem if you start thinking of how to mix languages. To integrates say Java, SQL and regular expressions in one grammar. Sure it can be done by careful attention to the grammar, like PL/SQL f.ex. but how do you do it in a generic way such that DSLs can be created as libraries by application programmers? BR, John _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
