[joshmarinacci]

I'm not saying you aren't typing symbols into an editor. Programming should still be done with a language. I'm saying: why should what you type be the same thing that is stored on disk. We are a decade into the 21st century and we still edit code the way we did in the 70s. Am I the only one who sees something wrong with that?

Let me ask you this. How will software for the Starship Enterprise be written? If we are still doing it in VIM then there is something seriously wrong with the future. Surely something better will come along. Let's explore what that something is.

[justncase80]

It sounds like you're referring to a "structured editor", something like this:

http://www.guilabs.net/