[Haskell-cafe] What features should an (fictitious) IDE for Haskell have?

[YueCompl]

Text is linear as it appears, but it is actually structured, and might be even more flexible. 

 In expressing structured ideas, I don't think it's easy to beat the ergonomics of text typing with certain graphics manipulation techniques, that'll be significant discovery in civilization of human beings once realized.

The Chinese word for civilization 文明 literally reads text and enlighten.

> On 2020-12-01, at 10:06, Mig Mit <migmit at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Please DO store code as ascii text. At the very least that would allow the use of external tools — sed, diff, git, whatever. Non-ascii representations were tried multiple times, and largely failed, in particular because of terrible interaction with other tools.
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> Also, please make sure your IDE is a good text editor. Because that's what the code is — not AST, but text. Until it is finished (to a certain lax definition of "finished") it is likely to not even be representable in AST form.
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> Sent from my iPad
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>> On 2020. Dec 1., at 2:02, MarLinn <monkleyon at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Most importantly: A good IDE is not a text editor, but an AST editor. If the AST happens to be presented as text, that's a choice of visualisation, nothing more. Better to start with a graph-like visualisation to free the mind, then think through the possible interactions. Maybe add the typical text-like visualisation later. But don't start there or you'll just re-invent notepad for the nth time.
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>> Maybe don't even store the code as ascii text.
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