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My take here is that we lack universal tools for working at higher levels. The only thing we’ve managed to standardize on is ASCII/UTF What we need is a standa
by audunw 7y ago
My take here is that we lack universal tools for working at higher levels. The only thing we’ve managed to standardize on is ASCII/UTF
What we need is a standardized representation for tree structures and their schemas. XML is too complex. JSON and YAML isn’t good enough. Lisp is pretty good, but I think the text representation is off-putting for a lot of people and its general focus is not quite in the right direction (recursive lists of data/items rather than having typed nodes that contained list of other typed nodes, like XML, with schemas defining every node type)
- kazinator 7y agoNote that if your "standardized representation" includes things like letters and numbers, it qualifies as text. If we stuff pieces of text into boxes and connect them with lines, that's still text. If you get rid of all text, what will you use for naming functions and variables? Icons? Or just don't name anything: to reference anything, draw an arrow to it? What do numeric literals look like?