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		msla on Aug 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Psychedelic Inspiration for Hypercard (2018) It would be a good language for a very active IDE which constantly showed you how the sentence-so-far had been parsed, so you wouldn't need to guess as much about the grammar. SQL could definitely use something like that, too.

Wowfunhappy on Aug 8, 2020 [–]

> It would be a good language for a very active IDE which constantly showed you how the sentence-so-far had been parsed.

I love this idea. Combined with a language like Hypertalk, a new user could foreseeable just figure out the syntax without looking it up.

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