Re: Alternative to ~= for inequality?

[Michael Richter <ttmrichter@...>]

On 9 February 2013 00:11, William Sumner <prestonsumner@me.com> wrote:

> Programming language design is not fashion.

 

But it is a user interface for developers. If something is confusing, unusual, or difficult to type because it's missing on some keyboards, it's worth some thought.

You mean like {…}?  Which is probably the single biggest blight^Wblock grouping construct in computing today?  Try and type { or } on any of the following layouts sometime:

• ACNOR / Canadian Multilingual
• Arabic
• Armenian
  
• Brazilian
  
• Canadian French
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• Estonian
• Finnish Multilingual
• German
  
• Icelandic
• Irish
• Italian
• Maltese
• Norwegian
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Tibetan
  
• Turkish
• Vietnamese
• …

This list goes on and on and on without end.  When it's possible at all for many keyboard layouts, it's a wrist-twisting torture.  Therefore, by your logic, we should be lobbying for C, C++, Java, C#, Tcl, etc. etc. etc. to be changing their syntax.

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