On Monday, June 27, 2016 at 5:53:07 PM UTC+5:30, Bob Gailer wrote: > On Jun 26, 2016 5:29 PM, "Michael Torrie" wrote: > > > > On 06/26/2016 12:47 PM, Christopher Reimer wrote: > > > Sounds like fun. Every aspiring programmer should write an interpreter > > for some language at least once in his life! > > In the mid 1970' s I helped maintain an installation of IBM' s APL > interpreter at Boeing Computer Services. APL uses its own special character > set, making code unambiguous and terse. It used a left-arrow for > assignment, which was treated as just another operator. I will always miss > "embedded assignment".
In the past, APL's ← may not have been practicable (ie - without committing to IBM... which meant - $$$ - Also it was a hardware commitment (trackball?) - etc Today that '←' costs asymptotically close to '=' To type :: 3 chars CAPSLOCK '<' '-' To setup :: [On Ubuntu Unity] System-Settings → Keyboard → Shortcuts-Tab → Typing → Make Compose CAPSLOCK To see :: Its ONE CHAR, just like '=' and ½ of ':=' tl;dr Anyone opposing richer charsets is guaranteedly using arguments from 1970 PS Google Groups is wise enough to jump through hoops trying to encode my message above as latin-1, then as Windows 1252 and only when that does not work as UTF-8 ie it garbles ← into <- etc So some हिंदी (ie Hindi) to convince GG to behave -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
