“But programs are still decisively vertical, to the point of being horizontally challenged. Why can't we pull minor scopes and subroutines out in that right-hand space and thus make them supportive to the understanding of the main body of code?”
Which made me wonder if there might be some way to make an editor do something along these lines, without changing the programming language. Similarly with his speculations about using color.
“But programs are still decisively vertical, to the point of being horizontally challenged. Why can't we pull minor scopes and subroutines out in that right-hand space and thus make them supportive to the understanding of the main body of code?”
Which made me wonder if there might be some way to make an editor do something along these lines, without changing the programming language. Similarly with his speculations about using color.