Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 3rd Sep 2006 12:23 UTC
What is the future of programming? I retain a romantic belief in the potential of scientific revolution. To recite one example, the invention of Calculus provided a revolutionary language for the development of Physics. I believe that there is a "Calculus of programming" waiting to be discovered, which will analogously revolutionize the way we program. Notation does matter." More here.
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Not really. The problem with having a seperate sidebar is that it wastes screen space. The problem with inline comments is it spaces out code vertically. My solution has all comments to the right of the code, within the same text box, yet it doesn't interfere when writing code. It just serves as commentary.
For example, if you press return after a line with a comment, the comment remains on the line and the cursor moves onto the next, perhaps auto-indenting.
I haven't really thouroughly thought it through.