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> It looks slow and cumbersome. It misses all the advantages of using a computer.

It's not a computer. It is a calculator for pen & paper.

> How would for example code competition, context sensitive features, or refactoring work? How about editing features of a capable editor like this here: [Helix]. It would be very hard, if even possible, to replicate such user experience with "pen & paper" (even if "pen and paper" would be digital).

Exactly. Keyboard-driven programming as it has evolved is un-replicable in a pen & paper form. But this goes both ways. Pen & paper modality allows you to do stuff you can't with keyboard, e.g. drawing & writing weird symbols like ∞∆⫸ (also outside UTF-8). Mouse is a poor substitute.

Analog pen & paper world lacks computation. What this pen & paper calculator should do well is to solve Euler problems in-situ at the speed of thought. Example: https://youtu.be/y5Tpp_y2TBk?t=18

> Instead the "text" (code) should become even more interactive. [Bret Victor] & [Enso] & interactive notebooks.

120% agree. Been doing some work & research in this space for quite some time.




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