>> These ideas are all basically the first thing anyone comes up with when dreaming up a new IDE. Indeed. Use of icons was one of the topics in an April fools

>> These ideas are all basically the first thing anyone comes up with when dreaming up a new IDE. Indeed. Use of icons was one of the topics in an April fools' joke from Bjarne Stroustrup [1, 2]. [1] http://www.stroustrup.com/whitespace98.pdf http://www.stroustrup.com/whitespace98.pdf [2] https://www.cct.lsu.edu/~hkaiser/spring_2012/exercises/week6.html https://www.cct.lsu.edu/~hkaiser/spring_2012/exercises/week6...