For a meditation on which aspects of our text-based programming tools derive from merits of the medium versus historical accident, see: http://westoncb.blogspot

For a meditation on which aspects of our text-based programming tools derive from merits of the medium versus historical accident, see: http://westoncb.blogspot.com/2015/06/why-programming-languages-dont-have.html http://westoncb.blogspot.com/2015/06/why-programming-languag... —there's also a second part (linked to within) that describes an alternate, general purpose architecture for programming tools that lets us stay powerfully text-centric while moving away from operating on character sequences under the hood. I wrote this non-traditional program editor: https://youtu.be/tztmgCcZaM4?t=1m32s https://youtu.be/tztmgCcZaM4?t=1m32s And a new kind of visual debugger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvfMthDInwE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvfMthDInwE