I assume he's referring to the massive commercial success of Holy-C and TempleOS.
(It's the only programming language with inline graphics I can think of, at least, your average esoteric visual language tend to not mix with normal code.)
(It's the only programming language with inline graphics I can think of, at least, your average esoteric visual language tend to not mix with normal code.)
This academic paper assumes two largely unmixed disciplines just barely kissing each other. I see a complete blending coming that will melt the boundaries between textual and visual programming.
Once you start thinking like this, you stop seeing semantic editing as a feature of a particular language: it should just be a native ability to have on any parseable code: the ability to reassemble the parse tree nodes like lego bricks.