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This sounds very similar to my perspective, which is that most applications try to provide a nice user experience in order to assist in doing something: creating a document, commun…

That's a good point. It explains why you can very often unintentionally end up with an O(n^2) algorithm in the first place, and Dawson's law then explains why no one bothers to fix…

I believe this language is based on the "chemical programming" model as described in http://pop-art.inrialpes.fr/~fradet/PDFs/RULE04.pdf and https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio…

The earliest one I know of is in the Emerald programming language. There is a brief description of the technique in http://www.emeraldprogramminglanguage.org/OOPSLA-86-paper.pd... …

Emerald objects can move from one node to another. So, for example, if an object on machine X wants to perform computation using data on some remote machine Y, the object can move …

Most of the comments seem to be about the page design, for a page that was probably created in the 90s. Nevertheless, Emerald the language is pretty fascinating, and way ahead of i…

(Disclaimer: I play jazz saxophone...) I think part of the reason classical saxophone is reviled is because the "correct" tone for saxophones in a classical setting is kind of bad …

No. The MADCAP programming language included indentation for conditionals and for-loops at least by 1961 (see, for example, the chapter on MADCAP II in Annual Review in Automatic C…