The title would probably be confusing, but I could not make it better than this. I noticed that most programming languages are limited to the alphanumerical set along with the special characters present in a general keyboard. I wondered if this posed a barrier for developers on what characters they were limited to program in, or if it was intentional from the start that these keys would be the most optimal characters for a program to be coded in by a human and was later adopted as a standard for every user. Basically, are the modern keyboards built around programming languages or are programming languages built around these keyboards?

  • cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me
    19·
    1 year ago

    APL

    From one of the many How to shoot yourself in the foot guides, for APL:

    • You shoot yourself in the foot; then spend all day figuring out how to do it in fewer characters.
    • You hear a gunshot and there’s a hole in your foot, but you don’t remember enough linear algebra to understand what happened.
    • @#&$%&% foot

    A fascinating language to look at, Conway’s Game of Life is simply life ← {⊃1 ⍵ ∨.∧ 3 4 = +/ +⌿ ¯1 0 1 ∘.⊖ ¯1 0 1 ⌽¨ ⊂⍵}, but I have zero interest in ever actually learning it ;)

    There are also keyboards with the proper symbols: