Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering

Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by breck on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @02:43PM (#27133687)

Yes, and surprisingly there are not too many that use any indentation based syntax (about 1 in 50). However, of the ones that do (abc, aldor, boo, buddyscript, cobra, coffeescript, csl, curry, elixir, f-sharp, genie, haml, haskell, inform, iswim, literate-coffeescript, livescript, madcap-vi, madcap, makefile, markdown, miranda, nemerle, net-format, nim, occam, org, promal, python, restructuredtext, sass, scss, spin, stylus, xl-programming-language, yaml) there are some real gems.

Some more interesting read's in this space:

2003 - Egil Möller's I-expressions - https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/srfi-49.html

1984 - Alan Kay's 3-D spreadsheet - http://worrydream.com/refs/Kay%20-%20Computer%20Software%20-...

1972 - Mark Wells' A Review of Two-Dimensional Programming Languages - http://sci-hub.cc/10.1145/942576.807009

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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by lambda on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @03:06PM (#27133952)

Cool! Thanks for some more reading and inspiration.

Here's what I have in my notes buffer; I hadn't gotten much further than this.

  Ssn: /([0-9]{9})|([0-9]{3})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{4})/\1\2\3/
  People: Table
      first: String
      last: String
      dob: Date
      ssn: SSN

  Csv
      headings: True
      load people.csv
          as: People
      select first last dob
      filter dob.age > 21

Well, I had some discussion, alternate forms of the syntax, links to prior art, etc, but not much else worth sharing.

Will have to add your TreeNotation and Ohayo to that list, as well as these other links you've shared.

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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by breck on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @03:26PM (#27134184)

Very nice! The nice thing about these kinds of notations is that they last. Simplicity is timeless. I can immediately grok exactly what you are doing here. :)

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