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                 An interesting idea in programming environment
                                        
Oh my … now this is brilliant [1], although you may need to watch the video
[2] to grasp the full concept. 

Now, before you click on that link, let me warn you it's about a new
programming language/paradigm, based upon a two-dimensional way of
programming (although, oddly enough, even a two-dimensional programming
language isn't new [3]). 

It's a neat idea, and the development system presented in the video
incorporates ideas on what an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) should
do for you [4]. I can also see using a similar tool that might solve (or at
least, points towards a solution) a particularly thorny programming problem
[5] that still lacks a good name. How I envision the solution to that as-yet
unnamed problem is a list of objects across the top of a table, all possible
actions down the left side, and at each intersection, you supply the code to
handle that object with that action. 

Hmmm … using a spreadsheet as a programming editor … 

[1] http://subtextual.org/
[2] http://subtextual.org/subtext2.html
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befunge
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/09/08.1
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2004/10/19.1

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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