Why do people want the syntax in which they write programs to be "the same" as the syntax they read them? The two obviously serve different purposes with opposite goals: terseness vs obviousness, etc. Tool: an editor that normalizes shorthand into error-correcting notation.
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Replying to @Ngnghm
I suspect part of the problem here is that people would want different shorthands, and are less inclined to learn the additional notation. Writing code is seldom the bottleneck? But I do think there are some clear wins here, like with structural editing and the like :).
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Replying to @Chobbez
Interestingly, people do not need a common syntax for writing shorthand or even reading code as much as they need a common semantics to understand algorithms — which is already quite a hard problem.
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