Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming languages

[Nomen Nescio]

"BartC" <b...@freeuk.com> wrote:

> And what is there beyond Unicode? Source code created as a bit-image - in
> colour - being fed to a compiler? Good luck with that.

Already been done. See "whitespace" and "ColorForth".

Next?

> > What happens when you get to define your own keyboard layout? Put the
> > new symbols anywhere you want.

I would say APL.

>
> You can invent all the new symbols you like. But you've then created your
> own language and your own tools. Then you swap computers with someone else
> who's created their own set of symbols and a different layout...

Yeah or even swap keyboards.. but the same thing can happen with macros
assigned to pfkeys. Don't ask me how I know.

> > And while you're at it, develop an interface with automatic indentation,
> > code completion and if possible, refactoring. Try to make that
> > interface independent to the compiler. Does it help this tool if you
> > add metadata to your object files beyond the regular debugging symbols?
>
> This sounds more reasonable. But I suspect such interfaces already exist..

Emacs, and yeah. They do.