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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by sylowosa@lemm.ee to c/programming@programming.dev

The title would probably be confusing, but I could not make it better than this. I noticed that most programming languages are limited to the alphanumerical set along with the special characters present in a general keyboard. I wondered if this posed a barrier for developers on what characters they were limited to program in, or if it was intentional from the start that these keys would be the most optimal characters for a program to be coded in by a human and was later adopted as a standard for every user. Basically, are the modern keyboards built around programming languages or are programming languages built around these keyboards?

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[-] snowe@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

An example (that you can't type) is: yā<ã.Δ¹sŸèOQ

I think the only thing here you can’t type is the superscript. The rest is easily typeable, at least on a Mac or a smartphone.

[-] TerrorBite@meow.social 1 points 10 months ago

@snowe @themoonisacheese I can type ¹ on a smartphone pretty easily

[-] snowe@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

Are you typing the character or using markdown to accomplish that?

[-] TerrorBite@meow.social 2 points 10 months ago

@snowe Typing the character. With GBoard it's switch to numbers+symbols then press and hold a number (in this case 1) to access fractions and superscripts.

[-] snowe@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

Hmm Gboard on iphone doesn't do that. Strange. I can hold plenty of other letters and numbers (like 0 to get °), but not 1-9.

[-] TerrorBite@meow.social 1 points 10 months ago

@snowe not sure if this image attachment is going to federate correctly from Mastodon to Lemmy

[-] snowe@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

It did not. Cool to see federation between mastodon and lemmy though!

[-] TerrorBite@meow.social 1 points 10 months ago

@snowe It's got its quirks. For example, if I am replying to someone who's not on programming.dev then I have to make sure to tag @programming (or another account on the instance) in order for my post to still federate to your server, otherwise only the person I'm replying to would see my reply and it wouldn't show in comments.

I did discover that adding the tag as a trailing reply to a missing comment thread will cause the entire reply chain to federate, so that's neat.

[-] TerrorBite@meow.social 1 points 10 months ago
[-] TerrorBite@meow.social 1 points 10 months ago
[-] snowe@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

Woah that’s cool. Wonder why it’s not on iOS. It’s clearly not a limitation, so I’m just guessing google doesn’t want to.

[-] TerrorBite@meow.social 2 points 10 months ago

@snowe a very common reason with Google products, I've found; up to and including not wanting to provide that product anymore.

[-] snowe@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

😂 yeah, that's why I've been trying to stop using google entirely, it's just asking to lose data or lose a workflow you use, or whatever. I got sick and tired of it.

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