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There are some gems in the conclusion :) > In this paper we introduced WysiScript, a formatting-based programming language that streamlines the programming pro
by abathur 6y ago
There are some gems in the conclusion :)
> In this paper we introduced WysiScript, a formatting-based programming language that streamlines the programming process by removing the awkward necessity of writing text. We gave an overview of its main ideas and a tour of its built-in features, demonstrated its simplicity and ease of use with several examples, and proved rigorously that it is equally as powerful as other languages and significantly more colorful.
> In particular, we believe it will appeal to many types of students who may not have an interest in traditional text-based programming, including painters, graphic designers, and the illiterate.
> An obvious limitation of WysiScript in its current form is the restriction, imposed by the RGB color model, that a single program can have at most 16,777,216 different user-defined variables and functions. This hinders the use of WysiScript for census-taking in the Netherlands, for example, because the Dutch population is 16,979,729. Future versions of the language may relax this restriction by adding support for additional colors not representable in RGB, such as ultraviolet, infrared, and plaid.
> In order to support quantum computing, which makes use of value superposition and probabilistic algorithms, future versions of WysiScript may make use of the alpha channel in color specifications.