On 14 June 2013 10:56, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On 15/06/13 03:32, Jim Mooney wrote: > > Now you're going to tell me there's a programmer's keyboard ;') >> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Space-cadet_keyboard<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard> > > http://upload.wikimedia.org/**wikipedia/commons/4/47/Space-**cadet.jpg<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Space-cadet.jpg> > > > http://ageinghacker.net/hacks/**apl-keyboard/apl-keyboard-2.**jpg<http://ageinghacker.net/hacks/apl-keyboard/apl-keyboard-2.jpg> > > http://www.rexswain.com/**aplinfo.html<http://www.rexswain.com/aplinfo.html> >
Alas, it looks like development stopped on programmer's keyboards quite a while ago. I guess I'll just wait for voice-command and I can code while I eat a burger. Seriously, Python would be the best adapted for voice command with its indenting and English-like syntax. A one-line javascript program littered with symbols, probably not. You couldn't even think it out to say it. At least I couldn't without typing it down, defeating the whole purpose of voice command. Although the string formatting just mentioned brings you right back to head-spinning one-liners of arbitrary complexity; maybe the best would be voice-command for basice concepts, while using the keyboard for stuff that would twist your tongue. Of course, by the time voice command gets really good, computers will be writing the programs, and programmers will be meta-programming using visual syntax - combining colored and adaptable object blocks in 3-D. Back to playing with blocks. Cool. I'm probably going to hear that's already been done, too ;') Jim "Knock, knock!" "Who's there?" "Me." "We got no room - go away" Three years later "Knock, knock!" "Who's there?" "Nobody" "Plenty of room for nobody - please come in."
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