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You'll also notice that while the comments are all plaintext, they're presented hierarchically as nested trees. There's also a hyperlink in your comment that I
by simias 12y ago
You'll also notice that while the comments are all plaintext, they're presented hierarchically as nested trees. There's also a hyperlink in your comment that I can follow easily, that's not plaintext.
I'm not saying plaintext is bad, I'm just saying that we're not stuck with 80x25 green-on-black terminals anymore, there's room for improvement using our modern display capabilities.
- mantrax5 12y agoWhy yes, we're not stuck with 80x25 green on black terminals. Why even mention it? By the way that nested hierarchical tree is also written in text (HTML and CSS). So is the hyperlink. URLs? Text. Check any modern IDE and you'll see similar visualizations over text based source code. I can explore my project in a tree-based outline in my IDE. I can open my classes as an UML diagram. Turns out we're already in the future. Celebrate?