We could give up on thinking of code as: - a sequence of characters and spaces - a series of lines - a fixed grid of characters and spaces Instead, store co

We could give up on thinking of code as: - a sequence of characters and spaces - a series of lines - a fixed grid of characters and spaces Instead, store code as a parse tree -- comments and all. Then we'd view and edit code using "WYSIWYG" editors solely. No more "cat" and "less", we'd need new tools. No more tty-like terminals, we'd need something more like a web browser. It would cripple existing workflows and hinder compatibility, but the advantage is that "formatting" would be the viewer's preference. Forget about tab stops and fonts; think more like CSS. It's an extreme version of the tabs people's argument. Word/Sheets documents come close, in a horrifying way. What I'm describing is more like Graphviz.