that's an interesting article. I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who's thought of this. That shows it's not crazy, just very hard to do (for compatibility reasons as he states).
Still, I think one day we will move towards this. I can't imagine the computer in the Starship Enterprise was coded in text files. On Sep 10, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Casper Bang wrote: > > Thanks Ben, had not heard of this, apparently called "projectional > editing": > http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/ProjectionalEditing.html > > The videos does indeed resemble Stephen Hawking navigating his voice > synthesis software but I'm sure that could be done better than that. > > It looks and feels as something they could dive into at Microsoft, > given C# already has access to the AST and an ability to dynamically > parse and execute fully GC'ed code. > > /Casper > > On 10 Sep., 17:48, Ben Schulz <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Youv'e got to write IDE support for this. Building this new >>>> language >>>> requires also building an IDE plugin that understands it". >> >>> And that probably explains why it hasn't been done before, a chicken >>> and egg problem. >> >> Ah, but it has been done before. >> >> http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3287http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3567 >> >> The LtU-archives will reveal a bunch more languages. >> >> In my experience they are not very user friendly, I prefer not having >> to touch my mouse any more than absolutely necessary. >> >> With kind regards >> Ben > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
