Re: One language environment don't have future

[amir@iae.nsk.su (Amir Yantimirov)]

kcline17@hotmail.com (Kevin Cline) wrote in message news:<ba162549.0302061237.919b409@posting.google.com>...
> Karel Miklav <karel@inetis.spppambait.com> wrote in message news:<nrv0a.654$wK6.41205@news.siol.net>...
> > I can't say that one language environment has a future, but 95% out of 
> > thousands of languages surely doesn't, because orders of magnitude of 
> > users do matter. 
> > And even then, I'm not sure that textual representation 
> > of logic is the best there can be.
> 
> Well, considering that most of the information in books is currently
> textual, and has been for many centuries, it seems unlikely that
> pictorial representations of program logic will prove superior
> within our lifetimes.

I am sure program logic should be _represented_ as text but it's not
necessary being such under surface. And raw text is not good for
representing rich hierarchical structures. Something like Word's
"Structured view" would be far more appropriate.

Units dependance diagram is only case what comes to mind where
graphics makes sense. With connection lines of various width. Exactly
as in circuits placement editor I had writing at DOS times :))

http://www174.pair.com/yamir/programming/textdead.htm

Amir Yantimirov