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It does not scale beyond rather simple programs. Text has much higher information density for the specific problem domain of representing programs.
by grandinj 6y ago
It does not scale beyond rather simple programs. Text has much higher information density for the specific problem domain of representing programs.
- Firadeoclus 6y agoCode as text can be taken as a subset at one extreme end of the continuum of visual programming. And if you take it that way it would seem to be always possible to find a more dense representation than, say, 11pt monospaced text.