[Switching to haskell-cafe]
For serious programming, I entirely agree.
But my view is that we are seeing some degree of programmability entering
all sorts of everyday objects -- video recorders spring to mind as an early
example -- and there's lots of work going on in the field of ubiquitous
As a serious programmer, I'd be very happy to have a more graphical,
more interactive programming experience as far as _output_ is concern.
I'm happy to input textual expressions and definitions, but I'd
like instant feedback and display of intermediate results as tables,
graphs, trees, charts
Quoting Graham Klyne [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Finally, as evidence for this view of user interfaces, I note that for
tasks like computer system administration, graphical interfaces have
pretty much taken over from the old command-line-and-text-file approach.
Even Linux systems have graphical
