There's lots of good reasons for using text for programming. But I've long thought that, as a medium for expression, it's pretty terrible.
I'm reminded of this constructive review of TempleOS [1] and thinking YES I'd like to have some of those code-writing features.
I'm also reminded of Perl, a language that grows multi-character operator glyphs at a rate only slightly slower than teenagers invent emoticons. Imagine if Perl could just be programmed with proper alternative symbol support like APL.
Having proper symbols might also stop the minor endless war of deciding to use "=" as both assignment and evaluation.
I'm reminded of this constructive review of TempleOS [1] and thinking YES I'd like to have some of those code-writing features.
I'm also reminded of Perl, a language that grows multi-character operator glyphs at a rate only slightly slower than teenagers invent emoticons. Imagine if Perl could just be programmed with proper alternative symbol support like APL.
Having proper symbols might also stop the minor endless war of deciding to use "=" as both assignment and evaluation.
1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9681501