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What's the intersecting region in the Venn diagram between "people who will program in APL" and "people who will program on a touchscreen" though? They're small
by Analemma_ 8y ago
What's the intersecting region in the Venn diagram between "people who will program in APL" and "people who will program on a touchscreen" though? They're small circles to begin with— most programmers seem to have an allergic reaction to coding on tablets and APL is kind of a hard sell even notwithstanding the input issue— and so I can't imagine the overlap is many people at all.
- pavlov 8y agoLike I said, it would be an open source project aimed at new learners who haven't yet built up those preconceptions. It's ok if it doesn't take off since it's not a business. (If there's one thing I've learned in my career, it's that you can't change developers' minds about anything fundamental. We are extremely stuck in our ways, myself included, and all too ready to pretend that tiny incremental changes in syntax or tooling are revolutions.)
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- dmurray 8y agoA language like APL would make it much more attractive to program on tablets or even phones, though.