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I don't think that human nature changes over history, but culture does. I agree that attention spans have become shorter, but I don't see how that relates to wh

I don't think that human nature changes over history, but culture does. I agree that attention spans have become shorter, but I don't see how that relates to whether programming languages will expand their palette of symbols.

JasonFruit 13y ago
Maybe the top-level comment was suggesting that more symbols implies a higher learning curve, and requires longer, more attentive initial study.
- snaky 13y ago
  And the APL history confirms that