1401 points alankay | 2 comments | 20 Jun 16 18:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source

This request originated via recent discussions on HN, and the forming of HARC! at YC Research. I'll be around for most of the day today (though the early evening).

1. westoncb ◴[20 Jun 16 20:06 UTC] No.11941048[source]▶

Hi Alan,

I'm curious whether you think it might be an important/interesting direction for program editors to depart from character sequence manipulation to something along the lines of AST editors. Or is this only a red herring, and perhaps not so deep a change?

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2. alankay1 ◴[21 Jun 16 15:10 UTC] No.11946189[source]▶

>>11941048 (TP) #

This has been done -- many times -- check them out and see what you think ...

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Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today