@lynaghk It's about the keyboards. And softkeys with new glyphs in unfamiliar layouts is probably still not ideal
Yesterday's poll on glyphs like λ and ε in source code: 5 to 1 against. Have we internalized the limits of our mid-70's editors? #SapirEmacs
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@chrishouser@BrandonBloom What is the solution? Turn this bad boy into hardware? http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html -
@lynaghk@BrandonBloom Maybe absolute pointer (leap motion?) for new symbol lookup, plus easy to learn multi-key composition? -
@chrishouser@BrandonBloom I'm not terribly concerned about beginner ease-of-use; we need violins, not recorders: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=861 -
@lynaghk another issue is visually ambiguous symbols. Beg. Python student last weekend had an odd syntax error: Chinese quote marks -
@tavisrudd ASCII-only make already won that contest with tabs/spaces. All else equal, I would think more glyphs => disambiguation
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@denislab Editors amuse/horrify me in that they're piles of regex badly "parsing" text that is designed to be parsed. /cc@thejayfields -
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@thejayfields@denislab A magical wonderland where language implementers separate parsing & execution; provide former via API. IRL, ANTLR -
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@lynaghk I don't think it's glyphs that people don't like, I think people fear having to memorize more things. -
@thejayfields@lynaghk Glyphs in my code?NO! I want the simplest possible human representation(ASCII)for something as complex as programs -
@denislab@thejayfields So I take it you do all your organic chemistry with Lewis structures and your maths with + and * only? -
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@lynaghk it's a serious problem, I'd say new hardware is part of a solutionThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@lynaghk I think the problem is more fundamental: We've internalized the limits of our keyboard layouts...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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