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Looks like a type of structured code editing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_editor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_editor I think that softwa
by ilaksh 4y ago
Looks like a type of structured code editing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_editor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_editor
I think that software engineering should have moved on to this years ago. And maybe they tried but programmers are subconsciously afraid of being accused of being mere users and so want to have colorful complex text in front of them at all times. I a also subject to this.
- tudorgirba 4y agoThere is indeed support for structural editing, but we start the environment from the viewing use case. There are many ways to view data (or programs) and these are much less expensive and approachable than editing. For example, the distribution alone comes with thousands of object views. These then enable us to answer questions about the system without reading code (which happens to be the single largest expense in software engineering today).