[swift-evolution] Beyond Typewriter-Styled Code in Swift, Adoption of Symbols

[Florent Vilmart]

Given the evolution of the past 30 years, I'd say yes, vi will still be a thing in a 100 years.

On 30 août 2017 18:39 -0400, John Pratt via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org>, wrote:
> Well, here is one question: 100 years from now do you think all computers
> should use vi?
>
> At what point would people ever have anything that ever slightly resembles
> something advanced?
>
> Do you ever want anything that
> slightly resembles science fiction, ever, in society? Or should everyone be
> using vi for the rest of civilization?
>
>
> > On Aug 30, 2017, at 5:32 PM, Eagle Offshore <eagleoffshore at me.com> wrote:
> >
> > While I am in theory a fan of literate programming and enjoy integrated programming environments when they are integrated into a complete literate system (Smalltalk browsers, LISP environments, HyperCard, etc...)...In practice if its just a language and not a complete holistic system, and I can't command the entire thing with God's own editor (I speak of vi - because its "there" and it is the only editor guaranteed to be "there" on any system I am ever likely to try to access), I'm not gonna use it.
> >
> > Just my $0.02
> >
> > > On Aug 28, 2017, at 7:57 PM, John Pratt via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > I sent a postal envelope to the Swift team with an article I wrote, arguing that
> > > symbols and graphics would push the programming language forward.
> > >
> > > Wouldn’t it be nice to have an actual multiplication matrix broken out into code,
> > > instead of typing, “matrix()”?  It seems to me Swift has the chance to do that.
> > >
> > > Also: why does "<==" still reside in code as "less than or equal to” when
> > > there is a unicode equivalent that looks neat?
> > >
> > > Why can’t the square of x have a superscript of 2 instead of having “pow(x,2)?
> > > I think this would make programming much easier to deal with.
> > >
> > > I expound on this issue in my article:
> > >
> > > http://www.noctivagous.com/nct_graphics_symbols_prglngs_draft2-3-12.pdf
> > >
> > > Thank you for reading.
> > >
> > >
> > > -John
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