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I do all my coding in gregg shorthand

• tachyoff 9y ago
  I know this was a joke, but do you by any chance know any shorthand? I tried to teach myself Gregg here and there years ago, but it requires more dedication than I was willing to put in to become fluent.
  • lwlml 9y ago
    Gregg is not the way to go if you're looking for a shorthand that captures text in the way you would need for programming or science and I don't know of a good shorthand for this [if it wasn't already APL.] Gregg is very much a "visible" sound system from a time when people just needed to capture the conversations and later expand back into text with the aid of a secretary. That is, if you didn't mutate your shorthand for your own purposes. That being said, Aaron Hsu's handwriting is beautiful, but not my cup of tea for thinking on paper--my initial reaction to his scanned pages was unpleasant because it wasn't what I was used to from my own hands.
  • sudosteph 9y ago
    I know teeline. But programming in it seems pretty silly since half the time you are only differentiating the meaning of words using sentence context. I do like the idea of using it for maybe some very basic terms in psuedocode though (if, for, define, class, etc)
  • fsiefken 9y ago
    perhaps an alphabetic shorthand like keyscript?
  • LionRoar 9y ago
    In the past, you could program on the C64 in a kind of symbol code. The keys on the C64 had all graphics symbols on them (ascii?) and if you used them while programming in Basic it was possible to use these symbols as a kind of programming shorthand. I don't exactly remember what was what but it was something like using ctrl-F which gave a symbol that would be interpreted as FOR and so forth. If you did a List the full commands were shown. You could expand that idea and create your own shorthand.