Re: If code is data why do we use text editors?

2014-11-17 Thread Thomas Huber
ssion <https://github.com/kovasb/session> and codeq > <https://github.com/Datomic/codeq> are tools that somehow keep your code > in a database instead of plain text. > > On Friday, 14 November 2014 12:42:57 UTC, Thomas Huber wrote: >> >> Hi, here is an idea that

Re: If code is data why do we use text editors?

2014-11-17 Thread Thomas Huber
e > motivations behind my clojure library (Tawny-OWL) was to move away from > manipulating a program (well, not a program, but a complex, formal data > structure, but it's the same thing) by changing an live data structure, > and move toward a flat file that has to be parsed. Sounds

If code is data why do we use text editors?

2014-11-14 Thread Thomas Huber
Hi, here is an idea that has been in my mind for a while. I wonder what you think about it. In Clojure code is data, right? But when we program we manipulate flat text files, not the data directly. Imagine your source code where a data structure (in memory). And programming is done by manip