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lvass
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The Rune Programming Language
Hard disagree on single characters for logic and exponentiation. ASCII has too few special characters and you'd want to use those elsewhere, without creating ambiguity. Elixir got it right.
PointyFluff
on Nov 27, 2022
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ASCII has tones of unused chars we could grab for coding.
junon
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Mm yes but BEL is not a character that can be typed on a keyboard with any amount of ease.
dragonwriter
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> ASCII has too few special characters
Unicode, OTOH, doesn’t have this problem.
josephg
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True, but we don’t have Unicode keyboards.
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