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?

  • 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.