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by shalabhc 3160 days ago
> books (text) are still the main medium

Geometry books don't use text as the only form of communication. Neither do books about architecture, mechanical engineering, anatomy, circuit design, etc. Imagine a world where you used only text to convey all these ideas and their relationships. Computer programming today a bit like that. Why should we assume that pure text is the best and only suitable form for representing automatic computation?