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I don't want to belittle anyone's work or inventions, but I think modal editors are old and outdated. They've had their time in my mind.

Bret Victor gave a great talk about programming and tools: https://vimeo.com/36579366

His talks always blow me away.

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On the contrary, my reaction to reading OP was, "wow, somebody brought Bret Victor's ideas to modal editors!" The goal of switching verb and object is precisely to stop drawing dead fish (http://worrydream.com/#!/StopDrawingDeadFish)

His demo is a neat parlor trick, but when you think about it, he's really just painting with javascript instead of a paint program.

Introduce any kind of higher dimensionality into his model and it breaks.

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