On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 5:04 AM, Gath-Gealaich <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:54:54 +0200 > frank <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hmm, perhaps extremes are a bad thing, but some moderate changes could > yield improvements? I've recently thought of a programming system that > would dispense with source files, but not in order to replace them with > some sort of "visual programming" system or anything of the kind - > simply to impose some potentially useful constraints onto the editing > process, Paredit-style. For example, keeping the source in form of a > data structure would obviate the parsing process - you'd eliminate > syntactic errors. That's not to say that this would make the editing > process "visual", as in playing with pictures - you'd simply be unable > to make edits that violate the code structure (say "bye" to unbalanced > parentheses - yes, I'd like the system to be an enhanced derivative of > Scheme, coincidentally). > > I have been thinking along parallel dimensions; no implementation yet, but this is a sketch of a minimal system: http://mnemnion.github.io/blog/2013/06/17/an-introduction-to-ent/
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