DConf 2013 keynote

[deadalnix]

On Sunday, 12 May 2013 at 08:53:59 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/12/2013 1:42 AM, deadalnix wrote:
>> On Sunday, 12 May 2013 at 08:40:11 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 5/11/2013 10:57 PM, deadalnix wrote:
>>>> Stupid inexpressive language are easier to write tools for, 
>>>> this is the very
>>>> reason why java have such a great tooling.
>>>
>>> You run the risk of having a write-only language if the 
>>> expressivity is in the
>>> tools rather than the language.
>>
>> Tools don't have to show you what is in the text file. That is 
>> the beauty of it.
>> IntelliJ for instance, don't show java source code as it is in 
>> the source.
>
> I.e. you've invented another language that has Java as its 
> output so the user never sees Java because Java is not 
> presentable to users.

What is presented to the user isn't a text format anymore.