why ; ?

[Joel C. Salomon]

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Yigal Chripun wrote:
> personally I don't understand why we still use text files to represent
> code. that's just so silly. data in a computer is stored in binary form
> not text, so you don't get to see your "real" code anyway, but rather a
> specific interpretation of it. and this encoding is very old and very
> simplistic. this is identical to word for example only difference is the
> format used by word is a different binary encoding.

 Bjarne Stroustrup had some hopes that the particular textual form of
C++ he’d developed could be replaced with other forms that were
conceptually identical but different syntactically. Turns out that isn’t
quite so doable. (Though when D exposes the syntax-tree form it’s a step
in that direction.)

—Joel
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