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On Nov 21, 2016 4:25 PM, "Gregg Reynolds" <dev@mobileink.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 21, 2016 4:16 PM, "Sean Conner" <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> >
> > It was thus said that the Great Peter Hickman once stated:
> > > Wouldn't localisation actually hinder learning the (programming) language
> > > via code reading. Lets say I learn lua in Gujarati and want to learn from
> > > someone else's existing code only to find that it is written in the Chinese
> > > lua. I wouldn't stand a chance, my ability to learn would be severely
> > > diminished by my need to learn a dozen human languages just to be able to
> > > read the code.
> > >
> > > Maybe we should go the MUMPS way and have one letter commands (I am
> > > seriously not serious about this) or the APL way and have characters that
> > > nobody can type (except maybe the Greeks).
> >
> > You just need an APL keyboard. I missed getting one by ten seconds (my
> > friend saw it first---sigh).
> >
> > -spc (what makes the loss worse is that it was an IBM Model M ... )
> >
>
> (OFF TOPIC) My first programming job was an ibm mainframe shop. I would kill for one of those keyboards. you could hit them with a hammer and they would shrug it off.
>
> btw surely you could make a software pale
read: APL
keyboard?