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		moconnor on Oct 31, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Joey Hess' minimal approach Programming is sadly still pretty much text-based. How many characters do you display on your monitor? Could you display as many with a smaller font on a smaller display? I don't think screen resolution is the bottleneck in information transfer here.

brianobush on Oct 31, 2012 [–]

I think it is great that it is text-based. Can you imagine searching for code without text?

jlgreco on Oct 31, 2012 | [–]

Or diffs. Diffing in visual languages is a nightmare.

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