Johnathan Edwards may be perched in the academia, but he's a hacker and one of us:<p>http://subtextual.org/young.jpg<p>He's making progress on his attempt to reinvent the programming wheel.<p>Latest news:
http://coherence-lang.org/<p>& This is absolutely must watch: http://subtextual.org/subtext2.html
Edwards hasn't seemed to have solved the core issue with so-called graphical (Edwards is calling it "non-textual") programming languages: they're clumsy to the point of being unusable.<p>The table visualization might seem useful for some, and it would perhaps make a nice feature/plugin for an IDE. But, frankly, I would rather muddle around with boolean algebra than clicking around his GUI.
This led me to go read a number of entries on alarmingdevelopment.org<p>There's some great interesting topics here, along with some of the most patronising discussion I've seen in a while. There's only so much of this "This is a topic that literally kills programmer brain cells. I’m going to do my best to be fair and not kill brain cells, and avoid getting called a loser by the peanut gallery for disagreeing with you." I can read