[akater]

I hope one day it will be released, either by me or by someone else. :-)

> There are many tools if you're working solely with plain text.

…which means, people choose plain-text due to time preferences: a certain gain in short-term is preferred to uncertainity of the outcome when they build tools for themselves. String-oriented environment is thus preferred not because notebooks' functionality is somehow bounded ultimately.

[szhorvat]

Yes, I agree with you assessment :-)