That isn't what he was saying, nor is what you are saying true. There isn't an intrinsic reason for code to be a text stream. There are environments that are in

That isn't what he was saying, nor is what you are saying true. There isn't an intrinsic reason for code to be a text stream. There are environments that are in broad use where it is not, such as Simulink, LabView, and some of the big game engines today. It's easy to be parochial about this when Unix like environments force everyone into a lowest common denominator of text streams, but don't take the limitations and bad ideas of Unix as laws of the universe. Edit: Summarizing the list of non-text mode programming languages in general use that people have mentioned in this thread: ANSYS SCADE Sikuli Unity LabView Simulink max/msp SynthMaker Kyme LUSTRE