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This sounds pretty damn cool...

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caveman_piet:
Yep - And just think of the advantages for
a language like "befunge"   :confused:   - in 3D.

-http://www.catseye.mb.ca/esoteric/befunge/-

Then you can really fool around!

Here's a quote from the originator
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"The Befunge programming language was created in 1993 by Chris Pressey for the purpose of being original, entertaining, and hard-to-compile.

In most languages, control flow is restricted to one direction and one dimension only: any instruction which does not perform an explicit jump actually performs an implicit jump to the next instruction.

Befunge, however, allows execution to proceed in less restricted fashion; the program is stored in a two-dimensional grid and control can flow left or right, or up, or down...

This multidimensional nature makes programing in Befunge an extremely "visual" activity (or perhaps "spatial" would be a better word.) Control flow can be easily visualized travelling "through" the program. Many Befunge-language debuggers have been written which enhance this effect with program animation.
Interestingly, Befunge was not specifically designed to be a multidimensional language; the main thrust was to have a language that was clearly a nightmare to compile to "regular" machine code.

For this reason, it was also made fully self-modifying, where no language-level distinction is made between code and data in storage space."
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Now that will bring new meaning to the assembler
statement "JRX" - Jump Random and eXecute...   :D

[ December 23, 2002: Message edited by: caveman ]

Calum:
fucking hell... should i learn befunge as my first programming language? so that everything else will be a relief?

as for that 'consortium', 'usual suspects' more like! 'microsoft' and 'standard' in the same sentence, hm? if i had been drinking coffe it would be all over my monitor right now.

Let's have a real consotrium do this thing.

SpeeDFreaK:
I'm waiting for some of that shiat from minority report. The 3d screens that float in midair with the gesture based input.

avello500:
i heard on my local NPR radio staion  that thier is a company making virtual keyboards. they are a infrared fieled projected in front of a laptop that senses your finger position.
there is also some engineers that made a touch/feel sensitive glove and two people *felt* each others fingertips over the internet.
dont worry their is a representative of a adult novilty manufacturer that said his company is already working on a full* bodysuit based on the technology.
he he he he
i cant wait for the holo decks    :D

[ December 25, 2002: Message edited by: avello500 ]

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