"Jonathan Coxhead" wrote on 1999-07-20 02:01 UTC:
> | One particularly intriguing possibility is the use of Chinese
> | characters. Imagine the expressive power of relatively short program
> | statements if you could use such succinct representations of ideas.
> | Of course, you need to read Chinese...!
>
> This would be easy, just needing the right editor. I'm also amused
> by the idea of defining 'operator \u2295', and writing expressions with
> CIRCLED PLUS, and the other Unicode operator symbols, though that's not
> on the horizon at the moment.
If you like ideographic programming languages with ideotic keyboard
requirements, try APL first.
Markus
-- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
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