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by delinka 5404 days ago
But then you lose the impact of the entire set of reserved words. At the point of ignoring the entire alphabet, you're looking at developer preferences for spacing and operators. Might be a nice sidebar to the existing heat maps.
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pyre 5404 days ago 

  > you're looking at developer preferences for spacing
  > and operators
Not really. For example, in languages that use $ (e.g. Perl, PHP) to denote a variable, that's not developer preference. I'm actually surprised that there aren't more operators being used in Ruby. Though I'm not a Ruby programmer, it does not look as devoid of punctuation characters as the heatmap suggests.
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cpeterso 5404 days ago
What would a programming language look like if it was optimized so its reserved keywords used mostly home row letters (and, in Unix tradition, preferably alternated left/right hands) and operators without shifting? This would be tough, since the home row only has one vowel: a.
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aangjie 5404 days ago
I was wondering the same thing and noticed that the vowels almost always feature in the top 10 and DVORAK has them all in one hand. yay..Infact, in a very casual observation, i think only 'r' seems to be the letter out of DVORAK layout.. I looked across languages though. Guess this makes me a DVORAK evangelist.:-) And to complete that image i will add this DVzine link.http://www.dvzine.org/
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