Comment on Underscores are stupid? Get a Japanese keyboardComments−yuchi14yActually Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, designer of Ruby is Japanese. It's pretty ironic, isn't it?−bradleyland14yIt's not ironic at all. One would expect that authors using a particular keyboard layout would tend to favor characters that are easy to type. In that way, it's the opposite of irony. The outcome is exactly what we'd expect.−yuchi14y> It's not ironic at all.Ironically, my sentence was sarcastic. :)OT: As far as you guys know, is there a language-agnostic keyboard for programmers?−blahedo14ySee also the keyboard used to develop the original vi:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Terminal_ADM3A.svg−yuchi14yThat explains also the tilde=home :)A recent article I've read somewhere explains it very well!−Twisol14ySeems rather apropos, really.
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Actually Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, designer of Ruby is Japanese. It's pretty ironic, isn't it?
It's not ironic at all. One would expect that authors using a particular keyboard layout would tend to favor characters that are easy to type. In that way, it's the opposite of irony. The outcome is exactly what we'd expect.
> It's not ironic at all.
Ironically, my sentence was sarcastic. :)
OT: As far as you guys know, is there a language-agnostic keyboard for programmers?
See also the keyboard used to develop the original vi:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Terminal_ADM3A.svg
That explains also the tilde=home :)
A recent article I've read somewhere explains it very well!
Seems rather apropos, really.