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
@chrishouser @BrandonBloom What is the solution? Turn this bad boy into hardware? http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
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@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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@lynaghk@chrishouser Serious now: We need to solve the 70s terminal emulator issue 1st. HTML isn't helping either. Our display tech blows. -
@BrandonBloom@chrishouser You don't think it's sensible to build modern human computer interfaces on HTML? -
@lynaghk@chrishouser HTML/CSS/JS is an absolute disaster for applications. It's not even that great for documents (it's original goal).
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@lynaghk@chrishouser I suspect that we're stuck with ascii programming languages until we get brain wave interfaces :-)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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