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?

  • Die4Ever@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I won’t consider any keyboard to be designed for programming unless it has dedicated keys for characters like {}() < >_+| & !*:" without needing to hold shift for them (Lemmy seems to be improperly escaping my less-than sign and ampersand)