On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 06:38:42PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 06:43:05PM +0000, Herbert Snorrason wrote:
> : This whole issue kind of makes me go 'ugh'. One of the things I like
> : best about Perl is the amazing simplicity of the <> input construct.
>
> Hmm.
>
> while (<>) {...}
> for .lines {...}
>
> Looks like a wash to me.
>
This is a neat win, keyboards favorise alphabetic characters that are
less excentred. Moreover, in some non qwerty layout, to make place for
diacritic characters, some non alphabetic characters are less
accessible, shift or alt-gr is necessary to type them.
Having being used to qwerty keyboards, on a french keyboard, I switch
from azerty to qwerty to program in C or Perl because of their heavy
ratio nonalpha/alpha. But most programmers use their native keyboard
layout.
--
stef
