From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ANN: Kickstarter for beginning work on a new open-source Compiler Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:53:59 +0100 Organization: cbb software GmbH Message-ID: References: <5151491a-14c3-4138-bcb5-f29108aeefb9@googlegroups.com> <857g7q6za4.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <0d9343e9-6190-46b0-a313-bc33ed17f28d@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: cTj7CVEwmZyjrFPUnpIvWg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:18879 Date: 2014-03-20T18:53:59+01:00 List-Id: On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 10:55:39 -0700, Shark8 wrote: > Fair points; but it still seems wrongheaded to treat the program-source > as mere text unless absolutely needed. It is *absolutely* needed in order to keep it formal. > As someone said, text is the > lowest common denominator... which is an absolutely stupid restriction > when it comes to talking about tools; if everybody stuck to that > ideology we'd all have vi or Notepad as our "standard programming editor". Maybe, but to get rid of this ideology you need to roll up a theory of formal languages based on an alphabet of graphics, scents, gestures, sounds, whatever you wished to replace traditional alphabets, or, possibly, invent an idea of a formal language with no alphabet at all. Good luck with that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_language -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de