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Thomas H Jones II

I think art is not the place to be looking for inspiration -- programming languages, while quite restricted in scope, are languages, and in thousands of years we've only come up with so many modes of linguistic expression. It's pretty much just speech and writing, and writing is clearly the superior of the two for this kind of purpose.

And, even in writing, it's pretty much just been glyphs and script ...and it's really only recently that we've sorta started to handle other-than-ASCII something resembling "well".

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Thomas H Jones II

Maybe people will still be writing FORTRAN in 2520.

Maybe not FORTRAN, but definitely COBOL. :p