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Cool stuff! Some random thoughts: - APL comes to mind. As well as the classic http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.pdf http://www.eecg.tor

by breck 7y ago

Cool stuff! Some random thoughts: - APL comes to mind. As well as the classic http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.pdf http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.pd... - You might want to cross post to https://reddit.com/r/programminglanguages/ https://reddit.com/r/programminglanguages/. - I like how you have a subreddit. - I'm a little confused about how to view the source. The GitHub seems to just be a website. Is there a folder I should be looking at? - You might want to educate people near the top on how to quickly enter symbols (control+command+spacebar on Mac OS X). I find unless a programmer is familiar with that, they are quickly turned off by symbolic languages.

badtuple 7y ago
Do you, or does anyone you know, regularly use unicode input like that in your day to day programming? It sounds like you might. I'm super interested in symbols as a way of increasing expressivity, but the ctrl+cmd+space route just seems like it'd be too much overhead for the tradeoff to be worth it. I'd love to hear what people who have gotten over the learning curve think about it as a language feature.
- uryga 7y ago
  i regularly use Compose for unicode symbols, mostly stuff like ←↑↓→–≠ . it's not too clunky, for example "→" is "RAlt, -, >" in succession.
- longemen3000 7y ago
  Julia allows the use of unicode variables and functions, which is pretty cool for scientific notation.they are written using latex shortcuts, and the REPL gives you how to write a symbol if you don't know how to do it
- breck 7y ago
  Yes. Have one experimental mathy one and one silly one for parents. Will post one of those soon. I don’t like them unless the tooling is great. With proper tooling, it’s looking to be a very interesting new area of r and d.

3 ms·

Cool stuff! Some random thoughts: - APL comes to mind. As well as the classic http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.pdf http://www.eecg.tor

by breck 7y ago

badtuple 7y ago
Do you, or does anyone you know, regularly use unicode input like that in your day to day programming? It sounds like you might. I'm super interested in symbols as a way of increasing expressivity, but the ctrl+cmd+space route just seems like it'd be too much overhead for the tradeoff to be worth it. I'd love to hear what people who have gotten over the learning curve think about it as a language feature.
- uryga 7y ago
  i regularly use Compose for unicode symbols, mostly stuff like ←↑↓→–≠ . it's not too clunky, for example "→" is "RAlt, -, >" in succession.
- longemen3000 7y ago
  Julia allows the use of unicode variables and functions, which is pretty cool for scientific notation.they are written using latex shortcuts, and the REPL gives you how to write a symbol if you don't know how to do it
- breck 7y ago
  Yes. Have one experimental mathy one and one silly one for parents. Will post one of those soon. I don’t like them unless the tooling is great. With proper tooling, it’s looking to be a very interesting new area of r and d.