Comment by ajuc
11 years ago
Hm, the history will be dirty with abandoned experiments etc, but so what - great idea. I'd like to use that system for a while, but I'm still not sure if it will work.
I remember using jbpm graph language - it had nice graphical editor, but we still switched to xml view to very often, because it was much faster to work with text.
Maybe it's just a matter of proper tools, but I can't imagine how you allow graphic language to do this for example:
sed s/foo\("bar", ([a-Z0-9]+), "baz"\)/foo\(\1\); bar\(\1\); baz\(\1\);/g
Maybe it's problem with my imagination.
When I look at that line, my brain sees its structure, the different layers... :) It is totally representable without restoring to plaintext. With good fundamentals (ADTs) and good UX (an editor that looks like a text editor but is so much more) we can make it work.