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Would a special keyboard help that much?
by 0xdeadbeefbabe 7y ago
Would a special keyboard help that much?
- boomlinde 7y agoA special keyboard at least puts you in a situation where you can fall back on hunting and pecking until you get used to where they are at your own pace. An IDE could help imprinting what the symbols actually mean.
- abrudz 7y agoThere are tricks to remember the locations (https://i.imgur.com/57wRuUS.png https://i.imgur.com/57wRuUS.png)
- yiyus 7y agoA special keyboard can hardly compete with the convenience of any standard keyboard. My issue is not to write APL in a personal basis; there are many tools for that. My problem is that it is not the standard. J and K solved that using ASCII. That is a very reasonable solution for a programming language but ASCII symbols are not, in my opinion, good enough to replace our current mathematical symbols outside of the computer. For example, I like the symbol ⍟ for logarithm more than the log() function, but I do not see myself writing ^. in a piece of paper or a blackboard, neither can I imagine school kids learning about logarithms with ^. In my ideal world, APL symbols would be so ubiquitous as other arithmetic symbols are today, so they would be part of standard keyboards. Instead, I am stuck with a mixture of ugly code and mathematical formulas that I have to write by hand or using something like latex. Taking into account how powerful computers are, I find this very unfortunate.