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If this had been published in, like, 1982, maybe the author would've had a point. But by now we're all so used to <> for generics, especially when scanning code
by Analemma_ 7y ago
If this had been published in, like, 1982, maybe the author would've had a point. But by now we're all so used to <> for generics, especially when scanning code rapidly, that I can't imagine the meager benefits of switching would outweigh the cognitive cost.
- troughway 7y agoI don’t think in 1982 they had issues with it - most problems that this article purports angle brackets to have are problems we have recently invented. As for HN not being able to handle having them as characters in titles, one would hope that would be a “simple” matter of escaping the characters at time of submission and parsing them at time of rendering.