Well, here is one question: 100 years from now do you think all computers should use vi?
At what point would people ever have anything that ever slightly resembles something advanced? Do you ever want anything that slightly resembles science fiction, ever, in society? Or should everyone be using vi for the rest of civilization? > On Aug 30, 2017, at 5:32 PM, Eagle Offshore <[email protected]> wrote: > > While I am in theory a fan of literate programming and enjoy integrated > programming environments when they are integrated into a complete literate > system (Smalltalk browsers, LISP environments, HyperCard, etc...)...In > practice if its just a language and not a complete holistic system, and I > can't command the entire thing with God's own editor (I speak of vi - because > its "there" and it is the only editor guaranteed to be "there" on any system > I am ever likely to try to access), I'm not gonna use it. > > Just my $0.02 > >> On Aug 28, 2017, at 7:57 PM, John Pratt via swift-evolution >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> I sent a postal envelope to the Swift team with an article I wrote, arguing >> that >> symbols and graphics would push the programming language forward. >> >> Wouldn’t it be nice to have an actual multiplication matrix broken out into >> code, >> instead of typing, “matrix()”? It seems to me Swift has the chance to do >> that. >> >> Also: why does "<==" still reside in code as "less than or equal to” when >> there is a unicode equivalent that looks neat? >> >> Why can’t the square of x have a superscript of 2 instead of having >> “pow(x,2)? >> I think this would make programming much easier to deal with. >> >> I expound on this issue in my article: >> >> http://www.noctivagous.com/nct_graphics_symbols_prglngs_draft2-3-12.pdf >> <http://www.noctivagous.com/nct_graphics_symbols_prglngs_draft2-3-12.pdf> >> >> Thank you for reading. >> >> >> -John >> _______________________________________________ >> swift-evolution mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution >
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