| > The benefit is purely readability. This year mark my 30th year as a professional developer, but my first "program" was copied fro a magazine 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
It generated random maze like structures in screen using two PETSCII symbolsI think everybody know this one liner here So it's not symbols I don't like, it's the lack of ergonomics My hands started hurting when I had to type a lot to write simple symbols like } that's why I switched to US layout and things have gone a lot better for my nuckles What really surprises and disappoints me is how many people appoint themselves as engineers or computer scientists, but take for granted that their ideas are good and the rebuttals are "resistance to change" without even reading the most basic studies on the topic or testing their theories on the field. Implement your idea, measure the results and then we'll discuss of why they didn't take off. Because they won't, believe me. There is a reason why I use font with the zero striked, otherwise capital O would look too similar. What do you think of ‹‹ vs « ? Do they really look different enough to be useful? Cutting edge doesn't mean "stupid" |