Programmer Tooling Beyond Plain Text

[Sean McDirmid]

http://joelburget.com/plaintext/

 

[Jake Brownson]

Neat post Sean, thanks for sharing.

"text is the most powerful, useful, effective communication technology ever, period"

I often hear the argument that "we've been using text for ages so why stop now" when I talk about structured editing in a mixed group, but I don't buy the premise. Whenever I see a page from an old enough scientific paper it almost always is filled with diagrams, sketches, equations etc. Pure text seems to be a relatively recent invention, probably coinciding with the typewriter or maybe printing press. We were willing to give up the expressiveness of mixed notations when presented with the power of a typewriter. Now that our "typewriters" are powerful enough now to go back to the old way we've forgotten how to do it.

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Sean McDirmid <smc...@microsoft.com> wrote:

http://joelburget.com/plaintext/

 

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