DConf 2013 keynote

[deadalnix]

On Sunday, 12 May 2013 at 18:09:59 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> I think that is irrelevant to my point. A language doesn't have 
> to be text based.

Textual format have proven theur usefullness again and again. 
Programming languages, json, xml, even dark stuff like LLVM IR 
have a textual representation. This is easier to debug.

In that regard, if you consider IntelliJ, java has become a 
textual representation. It is important as the compiler would be 
much harder to create otherwize.