In this spirit, it reminds me of Boxer (
http://pubs.media.mit.edu/pubs/papers/boxer.pdf | 1986| ) by Hal A and Andy D.S
which reminds me of NSD (Nassi-Schneiderman Diagrams | 1973 | ) aka
structograms ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassi%E2%80%93Shneiderman_diagram )
which reminds me how different fonts were used (fig.4 in
http://www.mprove.de/diplom/gui/Kay72a.pdf | 1972 | ) in Alan C.K DynaBook
paper: aesthetics as semantics ?
as a friend of some designers who think in space & colors, it always strucks me
that many (not all of course!) of my programmers friends think like a
turing-machine, in 1D, acting as if their code is a long vector, some kind of
snake which unlikes the ouroboros does not eat its own tail...
cheers! ( and namasti! )
Jb
Ps: oh! and since i post on fonc today, i would like to say that i'm very
intrigued by the notion of AR programming (meaning programming in an actual
VR/AR/MR environment) discussed in the recent mesh of emails. I would love to
see references or historical notes on who/what/where was done on this topic. I
mean, did Ivan Sutherland used its HMD system to program the specifications
(EDM) & code of its own hardware ? did supercockpit VRD (virtual retinal
display) sytem had a multimodal situational awareness (SA) real-time (RT)
integrated development environment (IDE) to program directly with gaze &
neuronal activity ? :)))
Ps2: ah! a last one, it would be so nice to have a visual parser of fonc!
coding people, can't you create some kind of a browser to scrap all these
stellar ideas & concepts & metaphors that you guys produce ?
Le 25 sept. 2013 à 01:19, Loup Vaillant-David a écrit :
> One way of escaping is indentation, like Markdown.
>
> This is arbitrary code
> This is arbitrary code *in* arbitrary code.
> and so on.
>
> No more escape sequences in the quotation. You just have the
> inconvenience of prefixing each line with a tab or something.
>
> Loup.
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:24:20PM -0700, David Barbour wrote:
>> Text is also one of the problems I've been banging my head against since
>> Friday. Thing is, I really hate escapes. They have this nasty geometric
>> progression when dealing with deeply quoted code:
>>
>> {} -> {{\}} -> {{{\\\}\}} -> {{{{\\\\\\\}\\\}\}} ->
>> {{{{{\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\}\\\\\\\}\\\}\}}
>>
>> I feel escapes are too easy to handle incorrectly, and too difficult to
>> inspect for correctness. I'm currently contemplating a potential solution:
>> require all literal text to use balanced `{` and `}` characters, and use
>> post-processing in ABC to introduce any imbalance. This could be performed
>> in a streaming manner. Inductively, all quoted code would be balanced.
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