One such test automation system is Sikuli, which uses images and image
recognition as key components.  To implement the image as 1D text seems
rather foolhardy.
On Jul 20, 2013 4:09 PM, "John Carlson" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think one thing that has succeeded is macro editors.  You can make macro
> languages which work on selectors or add conditionals/recursion to such a
> macro editor to achieve a fairly complete programming language.  You could
> also treat exceptions similar to conditionals.  I believe the area this
> works best for is test automation.
> On Jul 20, 2013 11:22 AM, "frank" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 07/20/2013 04:21 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>> >> 3) Get rid of established but unnatural ways of manipulating data.
>> >> Most importantly, get rid of flat text and find neat graphical
>> >> representations for the most common structures.
>> >
>> > Bouhahaha!
>>
>> This!
>>
>> There have been so many attempts - by people who were by no means
>> stupid - to replace text as the primary representation of code!
>> And ALL of them have failed, miserably!
>> The best anyone has ever achieved was to enthuse a few managers,
>> much to the detriment of the engineers who eventually had to use
>> the shit on a daily basis!
>>
>> Also:
>> 1D representations are established exactly BECAUSE they are NATURAL!
>>
>> The logical part of your mind (the neocortex, some people used to call
>> it the "left half" of the brain, but this has firmly been established
>> to be a somewhat shitty simplification) works serially in time:
>>
>>   state(t+1) = f( state(t) , input(t) )
>>
>> It works.... in 1D! An it likes representations in... 1D!
>>
>> Cheers, Frank
>>
>>
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