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Re:Learning APL by dzaima on Friday August 06, 2021 @07:33PM (#28094039)
in APL you have ~80 of such "pictographs" (and many you'd already know from regular maths). Sure, it's something you have to remember, but not much, really. Words can definitely help new english-speaking devs understand code, but, after getting used to the symbols, they just provide so much flexibility.
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Re:Learning APL by nuclearnice1 on Friday August 06, 2021 @11:02PM (#28095308)
In practice, how do you type the pictographs when coding?
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Re:Learning APL by razetime on Saturday August 07, 2021 @12:37AM (#28095723)
In general programming I like to use a keyboard layout which allows typing APL glyphs with Right Alt: https://github.com/abrudz/Kbd
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Re:Learning APL by Jtsummers on Friday August 06, 2021 @11:58PM (#28095560)
Depends on the editor. https://tryapl.org

Hover over the characters at the top to get a sample of a couple ways it might be done.

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