"Barry Cook" <Barry@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
I wonder if there is some intermediate, maybe a more flexible
display (colour, more symbols) and extended keyboard use
You might find Chuck Moore's colorForth system interesting to look at
-- it's a rather idiosyncratic Forth variant in which colour is
syntactically significant:
http://www.colorforth.com/cf.html
Extended character sets have somewhat gone out of fashion since APL,
although there's at least one language that still has one:
http://www.aplusdev.org/
Those of us who use syntax-highlighting editors for occam and other
languages already take advantage of colour to give us instant feedback
on basic errors in the code we're writing.
(what happened to folding? - I don't see much mention of it, even
though it is available in Emacs, ...).
It's widely available in modern editors -- VIM, jEdit and Eclipse
support it too, for example. There's some interest in using it outside
the occam community (spurred mostly, I think, by outliner-like
applications), but it's far from mainstream.
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Adam Sampson <ats@xxxxxxxxx> <http://offog.org/>