On Sunday, 12 May 2013 at 18:09:59 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I think that is irrelevant to my point. A language doesn't have to be text based.
Textual format have proven theur usefullness again and again. Programming languages, json, xml, even dark stuff like LLVM IR have a textual representation. This is easier to debug.
In that regard, if you consider IntelliJ, java has become a textual representation. It is important as the compiler would be much harder to create otherwize.
