Hey Chris, thanks for checking it out. The way I see it, the fact that our programming tools operate on huge character sequences is historical accident. Rather

Hey Chris, thanks for checking it out. The way I see it, the fact that our programming tools operate on huge character sequences is historical accident. Rather than coming up with a particular editor, I'm trying to think of what a more 'correct' structure for representing programs in general would be, as a replacement for character sequences. Of course this is essentially suggesting a paradigm shift, and as you say (approximately), the current paradigm has lots of momentum. It feels like this might be closer to describing planetary orbits with the more natural ellipses rather than circles—but maybe I'm just suggesting triangles or something :)