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?

  • BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    1 year ago

    Some of the “toy” languages used for code-golf can use some very non standard characters. Saying “all programming languages” is going to be very restrictive.

    • sylowosa@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Fixed ‘all’. I tried to acknowledge that there may be other languages that may not follow this rule, but I seem to have not noticed this mistake.

    • jvisick
      21·
      1 year ago

      That’s a little pedantic, don’t you think?

      • BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Ohh very much so. This wasn’t meant as a criticism of OP’s question. I was just trying to make sure they were aware of all the niche programming languages out there, especially the ones that use some rather exotic character sets.