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Subject: Re: Ada Successor Language
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On 2018-06-15 05:41, Lucretia wrote:
> On Thursday, 14 June 2018 22:00:24 UTC+1, Randy Brukardt  wrote:

>> While I agree with your basic premise, I'm dubious that there is a better
>> format than unstructured text for programs. There were many such
>> alternatives explored in the 1980's, and they all had the property of making
>> editing more complex. (I tried one for a while when a vendor wanted us to
> 
> I agree that the whole idea that the source should be a DB is a bad idea from the outset.

It is two different ideas, actually.

1. The source code is not stream of characters but a persistent object 
of certain structure, e.g. a text buffer.

2. The source code objects have dependencies and grouped in larger 
structures.

Both ideas are valid, good and long time due. The only obstacle are two 
horrific families of OS - Unix and Windows.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de