[Haskell-cafe] extending the notion of notation

[Bardur Arantsson]

On 2014-05-20 20:59, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote:
> 
> Can programming be liberated from the plain text file?

No.

I hate to be downer, but every single time I've seen a proposal for this
it has failed to account for how, *exactly*, it is actually different in
any meaningful way from the failed attempts at addressing this issue.
I've often been quite tempted to draw up a checklist à la the infamous
spam-fighting checklist for why
$YOUR_IDEA_FOR_NON-TEXT-BASED_PROGRAMMING won't work -- at the very
least it'd serve as a time-saver whenever this comes up :).

We can all dream, but unless and until someone comes up with something
*radically* different from previous attempts, it just ain't going to happen.

Regards,