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 I'm not terribly concerned about beginner ease-of-use; we need violins, not recorders: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=861
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@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 violins? here you go https://twitter.com/andymckay/status/335928178784747521 … Seriously though, have you read about "neo-Victorian computing"?
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@lynaghk@chrishouser I'm not talking about beginners. I'm talking about experts needing to find a particular character. -
@BrandonBloom@lynaghk@chrishouser I learnt numerical analysis in APL, which solved the input problem like this: http://www.rexswain.com/aplkeyb.gif
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