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Re:Why and How I Wrote My Academic Book in Plain Text by the_af on Friday April 17, 2015 @02:26PM (#9396197)
Agreed. This is the same reason why some of us are skeptical of the frequent calls for more "visual" programming languages that eschew textual representations of code.
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Re:Why and How I Wrote My Academic Book in Plain Text by digi_owl on Saturday April 18, 2015 @11:32AM (#9399763)
Thinking about block based "IDEs"?

I think the biggest difference there is that a document is "static". It is not supposed to process something else like code is.

Thus what you want to avoid at all costs is "boiler plate" bugs. Bugs that are not caught at compile time because it is semantically correct, but that end up producing wild results once a certain kind of data is introduced.

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