On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 15:03, Eric Jablow <erjab...@gmail.com> wrote: > On May 18, 5:45 am, Roland Tepp <luol...@gmail.com> wrote: >> At the risk of causing some whitespace holy war, I would actually secont >> that sentiment. > >> Also - if everyone used tab for indentation, it would open up elastic >> tabstops <http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/> and opening up. >> Also, to throw it out here, I just stumbled upon a pretty neat idea talking >> about sidestepping the whole *tabs vs spaces* discussion by using a word >> processor<http://daniel.lanovaz.org/Site/Blog/Entries/2004/10/31_Thinking_with_...> >> for writing code instead. Quite bold proposal, I would say... >> >> kolmapäev, 18. mai 2011 9:56.33 UTC+3 kirjutas Casper Bang: >> > > Once upon a time, when I was programming on a NeXT box, I saw that > one could have his Objective-C .h and .m files be RTF files. > The compiler would ignore fonts, styles, and colors. I am now having > odd > dreams of a programming language where fonts, styles, and colors are > significant. Instead of writing a[3], one would write a (subscript)3.
ColorForth? ;-) http://www.colorforth.com/cf.htm > They're fitting me for my straitjacket now. I hacked on ETH's Oberon System for a number of years. The OS came with a rich text editor built in and all programming was done in that environment in a proportional font. It was not unusual to embed images in source (as commentary). It was generally convention to bold exported identifiers and set comments in italics. I sometimes set custom tab stops to exercise more control over code layout. I found it a very pleasant environment to program in, though *very* different from the world of Emacs+Eclipse+Java I live in now. // Ben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
