ACM Comm 2010 November Sir, Please Step Away from the ASR-33! (Notes)
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Sir, Please Step Away from the ASR-33!
Main Idea: To move forward with programming languages we must first break free from the tyranny of ASCII.
People
- Bjarne Stroustrup[1] - C criticism
- Guido van Rossum[2] - Python syntax
- James Gosling[3] - C++ criticism
- John Ousterhout[4] - TCL
- Robert Pike[5] - JAVA criticism
Ideas
- ALGOL
- APL
- Background color - Change it to apply an idea to the selected text.
- Color text - The same text with different colors have different meanings to the compiler/interpreter.
- Drop ASCII and LATIN1 for UNICODE.
- Glyphs - Why restrict an idea to one or three printable characters?
- Go (programming language) by Robert Pike.
- Having a teletypewriter customized for your programming language was the least of your worries.
- Multiple columns
- Syntax Designers, not programmers.
- Text box inserts
References
- Pike, R. Systems software research is irrelevant;[6]
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Parent Article: Reading Notes