Think Julia: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist

Re:Think Julia: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist by ethelward on Saturday August 18, 2018 @05:52AM (#17787735)

The only issue here is with input devices. The Greek alphabet is standard Unicode, so it's not more expensive to render or manipulate for your text editor compared to standard latin.

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Re:Think Julia: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist by nolemurs on Sunday August 19, 2018 @12:25AM (#17792592)

To be fair, input devices are a pretty serious issue here. Probably the single most common operation I do on code is search it. If I can't type what I'm searching for easily, that's pretty annoying.

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Re:Think Julia: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist by ethelward on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @10:04AM (#17809627)

> To be fair, input devices are a pretty serious issue here

That's true. I'm currently using an emacs extension that allows me to convert to greek unicode LaTeX-like string (\alpha, \Gamma, ...), butI understand that's more of a hack rather than an actual solution.

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