Another program which has worked well in dual text/graphic mode has been dreamweaver. Yes I understand it may not do all the behavior you want. However it doesn't stop you from adding that behavior. On Jul 20, 2013 4:13 PM, "John Carlson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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