The big question here I still have is: text? Perl 6 gives us little languages, but they are still shackled by ASCII-based notation. Solve that problem, and you'

The big question here I still have is: text? Perl 6 gives us little languages, but they are still shackled by ASCII-based notation. Solve that problem, and you've got something big. A text editor is just one way of viewing the bytes that represent source code. Theoretically, any language supports other ways of viewing and editing code. It's just the tools that are missing.