Re: TechNote 2106
Re: TechNote 2106
- Subject: Re: TechNote 2106
- From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 17:47:01 -0800
At 12:06p -0700 03/06/2004, steve harley didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
on 6 Mar 2004, at 4:42 AM, Chris Page wrote:
Most editors today edit text. Plain text, usually, despite editors
that color code or even apply fonts. The editors have no knowledge
of how to edit a program. They edit character streams. A "program
editor" would edit programs or code. The editor would work with
some binary representation, possibly a tree.
so i would suggest starting with an outlining editor for the block
structure and above, then experimenting within that for ideas how to
do "code-editing" at the "line" level
Hmm. One of the interesting things about 4D was (is? I haven't looked
at it since v2) that you could choose between procedural and
diagrammatic ways to write a program. The down side was that once you
chose, you could not switch.
Now, if there were an editor which let you write a program as a flow
chart and then edit code within the blocks of the diagram, that would
be amazing.
-boo
who has only written flowcharts after the fact
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