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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG <warren@ve3wwg.tk> wrote:
: 
: But this gets back to maintaining many mostly parallel
: pieces of code.

Well, yes. It is very centralised though.
The ideal scenario for me would be a declaration (using
clickable check boxes or editing text) that
effectively creates a program view. This means, I specify
what I want at a high level and the computer compiles this
into a corresponding source text view.

When I see

if <this>
context_clause_A
fi
source
source
if <this>
variant_A
else
variant_B
fi
source
source
if <this>
addition_A
fi
source

this looks like assembly language to me, with all its flexibility.
But why do we build higher level text structures and compilers?


It is interesting that programmers and in particular those
with an engineering attitude have not built machinery to solve
the problem in a high level systematic manner. Why?

There is an opportunity to sell something, or selling support,
or starting a community effort...

-- Georg