After reading all the responses, I feel like I
should point out that the real crux of my
argument -- or the whole point of it if you will
-- was not to start any qualitative argument
about the good or bad of text based programming.
Especially on this list!
My qualification was merely a result of my
approach of looking at text-based programming
languages from the perspective of:
- the keyboard
- the ascii table
- the array
- the state register
This is far more interesting (to me at least)
than the ++ or -- of text-based programming, or
the relationship between natural languages and
programming languages which is one of the oldest
debates in the book; even if that old debate is
actually what Livecoding is playing with (in
part).
So the real argument for me was: why are
text-languages the most powerful forms for
programmable machines, and why do we keep coming
back to them? I think the above 4 conditions
frame the question in a revealing way (at least
for me).
--
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