<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Well, here is one question: 100 years from now do you think all computers </div><div class="">should use vi?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">At what point would people ever have anything that ever slightly resembles</div><div class="">something advanced?</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">Do you ever want anything that</div><div class="">slightly resembles science fiction, ever, in society? Or should everyone be</div><div class="">using vi for the rest of civilization?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 30, 2017, at 5:32 PM, Eagle Offshore <<a href="mailto:eagleoffshore@me.com" class="">eagleoffshore@me.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Just my $0.02</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 28, 2017, at 7:57 PM, John Pratt via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I sent a postal envelope to the Swift team with an article I wrote, arguing that<div class="">symbols and graphics would push the programming language forward.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Wouldn’t it be nice to have an actual multiplication matrix broken out into code,</div><div class="">instead of typing, “matrix()”? It seems to me Swift has the chance to do that.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also: why does "<==" still reside in code as "less than or equal to” when</div><div class="">there is a unicode equivalent that looks neat? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Why can’t the square of x have a superscript of 2 instead of having “pow(x,2)? </div><div class="">I think this would make programming much easier to deal with.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I expound on this issue in my article:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.noctivagous.com/nct_graphics_symbols_prglngs_draft2-3-12.pdf" class="">http://www.noctivagous.com/nct_graphics_symbols_prglngs_draft2-3-12.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for reading.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-John</div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">swift-evolution mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a><br class=""><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution" class="">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution</a><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>