From: Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>
Subject: Re: RTS graph and "temporal formulas"
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 20:34:06 +0200
Date: 2013-08-22T20:33:59+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52165997$0$9514$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c73918dc-5dc5-4db8-85bc-7b2f5de42936@googlegroups.com>
On 22.08.13 17:42, Adam Beneschan wrote:
> On Thursday, August 22, 2013 1:51:09 AM UTC-7, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>
>> Microsoft could stop the confusion by finally including a key with an
>> assignment symbol on their new keyboards. Its lack is simply an oversight
>> of years of computer design, maybe a blind spot, and too embarrassing to
>> be fixed.
>
> Which assignment symbol? The left arrow (as in APL)? I could go for that, except that you know everyone would confuse it with the other left arrows already on the keyboard that are used for cursor movement.
Yes. A left arrow could take the position of the CAPS LOCK key
when the keyboard is switched to programmer mode. Programmers
should not find it confusing, then. They are used to overloading.
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-21 20:04 RTS graph and "temporal formulas" Emanuel Berg
2013-08-21 20:11 ` dukeofpurl
2013-08-21 20:16 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-21 21:19 ` optikos
2013-08-21 22:50 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-21 23:33 ` optikos
2013-08-22 0:19 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-22 16:17 ` Dan'l Miller
2013-08-22 21:04 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-22 21:32 ` Dan'l Miller
2013-08-22 21:35 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-22 21:45 ` Dan'l Miller
2013-08-22 0:59 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-08-22 8:51 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-08-22 15:42 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-08-22 15:58 ` Alan Jump
2013-08-22 18:34 ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2013-08-22 18:56 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-08-22 21:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-08-22 21:11 ` Robert A Duff
2013-08-23 13:52 ` Shark8
2013-08-23 15:36 ` Robert A Duff
2013-08-23 17:09 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-08-25 10:22 ` AdaMagica
2013-08-26 15:23 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-08-27 12:44 ` Stephen Leake
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