(10-14-2022, 06:07 PM)Pete Wrote: I got a kick out of Bill, too. You know he had a theoretical degree in physics!
Since IDE's exist for other languages, I think a universal IDE would be a high work to reward ratio. I'm not sure anyone will want to jump on that grenade. Hey, where's Clippy?! (BOOM!)
Pete
The big idea here and final goal is more that we can treat a programming language kind of how a Word processor treats a font - as more a part of the presentation than the actual content. Underneath it all, any program is ultimately a bunch of instructions to store and compare values, apply operations, do branching, and I/O. Of course a given program is a lot harder to translate into a different paradigm, but at the end of the day, they all compile (or are interpreted) to the same machine code instructions, which are not OO or anything other than very simple instructions. If we don't try to handle how to convert code between paradigms (we'll leave that for the day when AI is smart enough) and stick to the basic features that most procedural languages can do, then I think it is doable.