On Monday, 7 March 2016 at 06:48:10 UTC, Era Scarecrow wrote:
I'm reminded. Weren't there standard 50-something keyboards, and then 101 keyboards? And you actually COULDN'T do programming on the 50-key keyboards because literally standard symbols were missing?
No unicode. No keys. No mouse. No bitmap graphics. Just a hardwired terminal. Welcome to the 60s and 70s.
I have an excellent idea! I'll start programming using nothing but the greek alphabet, better yet unicode characters!
immutable π = 3.14; writeln( ∑(values) ); x = x + ∆; Oh, the horror!