On Tue, 2014-02-18 at 22:52 +0000, Kevin Wright wrote: […] > > It starts with the shocking fact that we continue to use raw text as the > medium for transferring structured thoughts into structured syntax trees, > and then proceeds down the rabbit hole... > > I have a lot of hope that the dotty project will lead to a simpler, > cleaner, faster, more elegant Scala 3.0 further down the line. But it'll > still be represented as raw text :(
Many projects in the mid-1980s suggested "let's store abstract syntax trees as the definitive form of source and render according to need" but the orthodox programming/software development/software engineering stated "no, you are out of order, we must have our ASCII text files". And so began the industry of reconstructive abstract syntax trees from source code files exemplified by Eclipse and InteliJ IDEA. So much resource wasted methinks. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
