Re: Grammars for future languages

Hi,
Just a brief comment.


I read the first-few replies to this with interest but noticed that
they all tended to make the same assumption, namely that any future language
had to be completely textual. Now, I'm am usually the last person to witter
on inanely about Graphical Interfaces but it seems to me that a very simple
way of making a language less likely to appear ambiguous would be with the
careful use of a few pencil-lines in the code (as in a flow-chart). For
example, just putting the contents of a loop *inside* a box is quite
sufficient to absolutely distinguish them from the surrounding code.


Of course this has disadvantages, the absolute requirement for an
interactive editor (another good way of making code-browsing easier) being the
main one, but as machines become more powerfull and less expensive, this sort
of objection will have less and less impact on peoples behaviour.


Just a brief musing,


Badders
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