Re:Sir, Please Step Away from the ASR-33 (2010)
by Noe2097 on Sunday June 27, 2021 @11:04AM
(#27652127)
> I am not sure what the hell this guy is talking about
Have a look at the APL language the author is mentioning, you will see you missed the point of his article.
The point of the author is not just about having more characters supported for identifiers or within strings (as the part of the golang specifications you are pointing to). He has more operators and related constructions in mind, which could benefit from more elaborate characters, e.g. the whole set of mathematical operations.
The issue I see however in his reasoning,is that precisely in the case of APL, dedicated keyboards had been built for it. The reason for limiting character set to ASCII, is there immediate accessibility on everybody's keyboard
Have a look at the APL language the author is mentioning, you will see you missed the point of his article.
The point of the author is not just about having more characters supported for identifiers or within strings (as the part of the golang specifications you are pointing to). He has more operators and related constructions in mind, which could benefit from more elaborate characters, e.g. the whole set of mathematical operations.
The issue I see however in his reasoning,is that precisely in the case of APL, dedicated keyboards had been built for it. The reason for limiting character set to ASCII, is there immediate accessibility on everybody's keyboard