> This just shows how deeply ingrained the ascii plain text mindset is > in the programming community. I don't expect anything like this to ever > fly, for this reason. You guys won't let it. :(
(Sorry, but how did ascii get in there? Was the argument for Unicode or HTML?) As for mindset, the programming community was one of the first to try "structure editors" and other tools that gave a more abstract view of source code. The programming community has also been pretty quick to start using HTML and XML. That plain-text syntaxes for source code have survived suggests that there are good reasons for that and that the answer to the question in an earlier message Don't we have similar needs as other electronic document manipulators? is "no, not similar enough". I work with HTML and XML all the time, and I have never felt any desire to represent programs that way; and when I do have to deal with an XML syntax for anything like a program (such as ant acripts, xslt stylesheets), I find it very unpleasant. -- Jeff _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
