Everyone's favorite subject, Syntax (was Re: issues)

[Brian Rice]

This is an interesting angle on the issue, to which I don't have much  
to add right now except that I agree with the analysis. Those who  
want this should try something in that direction.

(And yes, Slate is too slow to run the UI yet. That's a critical  
improvement point I'm looking at.)

On Mar 8, 2006, at 5:11 AM, Matt Revelle wrote:

> I envision there being two main categories of MVCs: the first is
> useful for representing all capabilities of the Slate language, the
> second is for representing domain-specific languages (DSLs).
>
> The representation of the entire language allows a combination of
> graphical and text-based programming.  Blocks of code no longer need
> to be visually represented as text surrounded by brackets, the syntax
> for defining method collaboration doesn't need to look complicated
> (even though it really isn't) - in short, it's taking the ascii art
> out of programming.  Code as text is still needed, but it will be
> boosted by a mixing with graphical components.
>
> Since DSLs have a narrower application, it may be possible to do away
> with almost all code as text, though some data would still be textual.
>
> Of course, MVC would also mean that all the above is customizable.
>
> Take care,
> Matt
>
> On 3/7/06, Bill Sun <billksun at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I really like the source code MVC idea.  Perhaps this is an idea  
>> that is worth
>> putting out on a blog or a wiki page to gradually mold the idea  
>> into some
>> concrete design and attract able parties to implement?
>>
>> I understand that you are also concerned with attracting the wrong  
>> kind of
>> developers, but perhaps that wrong-kind-of-developer will be able  
>> to introduce
>> the right-kind-of-developer to Slate.  To put it in another  
>> perspective,
>> repelling that wrong-kind-of-developer, may mean losing the chance  
>> to attract
>> that right-kind-of-developer as well.
>>
>> -Bill

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-Brian
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