Text+code blended media (not counting formatting as in markdown or latex)
- regular comments in code
- shortcodes in wordpress
- things like inline calculators in roam
- wolfram’s computational essays
- jupyter style notebooks
- discord ‘commands
Did I miss any major ones?
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Some version of this feels like my natural medium. Except everything around leans too heavily towards the code side. The trick is to add code capabilities to a writing/publishing workflow, nor the other way around. The hello world should be Loren ipsum text, not a function call
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LaTeX *is* Turing complete… 😜
More seriously, I’ve definitely seen people use Excel this way, even if Excel isn’t great for writing.
There’s also Calca, though that’s (sadly) abandonware these days.
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Dashboards, especially if they involve more text then usual. An example can be shiny dashboards in R or if someone did a very written dashboard in looker or something with a lot of explanations per query
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The biggest one of all is long, meaningful user-defined variable names / function names in high level programming languages.
Much of our "code" is also human readable text.
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