Comment by gbog
13 years ago
Text is still the best way too tell a story and programs are just that: stories. I would say that any language requiring a fancy IDE is doomed.
13 years ago
Text is still the best way too tell a story and programs are just that: stories. I would say that any language requiring a fancy IDE is doomed.
Comics and movies are pretty good ways to tell stories too. Some stories are better suited to text. Some are not. I'm in the middle of making a comic that makes deep use of color and the relative position of panels on the page to tell its story, for instance.
What kind of programs are we missing out on by limiting ourselves to text? What kind of programmers?
Upvoted but I don't know the answers to your questions. Maybe getting more programmers is a good thing. For me, right now the issue is to get better ones, and I doubt having box drawing languages should bring better programmers on the boat.
I'm not sure if you can say that text is the best way. It's certainly one way to tell a story, and even a fundamental way to tell a story, but there have been many interesting advancements in storytelling in the last few millennia. I also enjoy pictures and, especially, talking pictures.