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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> fonc mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >> >
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